Deer-Vehicle Crash Information Clearinghouse

2005 Meeting Agenda

Deer-Vehicle Crash Reductions: Setting a Strategic Agenda

Madison Concourse Hotel
Madison, Wisconsin
October 24 - 25, 2005- Download a printable copy here

 
October 24, 2005
7:30-8:30 Continental Breakfast/Registration
8:30-9:00 Welcome, Meeting Overview, and Meeting Purpose
  • • Dr. Keith Knapp, Director, UW-Madison Deer-Vehicle Crash Information Clearinghouse
  • • Major Dan Lonsdorf, Director, Bureau of Transportation Safety, Wisconsin DOT
  • • Tom Hauge, Director, Bureau of Wildlife Management, Wisconsin DNR
  • • William Bremer, Safety and Traffic Operations Engineer, Federal Highway Administration – Wisconsin Division
  • • Sponsor Introductions
9:00-10:00 Keynote Speakers
  • • Mary Gray – Federal Highway Administration, Office of Planning, Environment and Realty, Water and Ecosystems Team
  • • Patrick Hasson – Federal Highway Administration, Safety and Highway Design Technical Service Team Leader, FHWA Resource Center
10:15-10:30 Break
10:30-11:00 2000 DVC Working Group Recommendations and Progress (Brent Haglund and Kevin McAleese, Sand County Foundation)
11:00-12:00

Work in Progress

  • • UW Deer-Vehicle Crash Information Clearinghouse Projects/Initiatives (Keith Knapp – UW-Madison, Director, Deer-Vehicle Crash Information Clearinghouse)
  • • NCHRP 25-27 Project Update – Wildlife Crossings in North America (Patricia Cramer, Research Associate USGS Utah Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Utah State University)
12:00-1:00 Lunch (Speaker: Current Status and Measures of Wildlife-Vehicle Collisions in Hokkaido Fumihiro Hara, Hokkaido Development Engineering Center, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan)
1:00-3:05

Work in Progress (Continued)

  • • Thinking Outside the Marketplace: A Biologically Based Approach to Reducing Deer-Vehicle Collisions (Gino D’Angelo, Graduate Researcher, University of Georgia-Athens)
  • • Current Road Ecology Research at the Western Transportation Institute-Montana State University (Marcel Huijser, Research Ecologist, Montana State University)
  • • Characteristics of Vehicle-Animal Crashes in Which Vehicle Occupants are Killed (JoAnn Wells, Senior Research Analyst, Insurance Institute for Highway Safety)
  • • Nonfatal Motor Vehicle: Animal Crash-Related Injuries, US, 2001-2002 (Ann Dellinger, Epidemiologist and Team Leader, Motor Vehicle Injury Prevention Team, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
  • • Environmental and Human Dimensions of Deer-Vehicle Collisions in Michigan (Shawn Riley, Assistant Professor, Michigan State University)
3:05-3:20 Break
3:20-3:45

Work in Progress (Continued)

  • • Transportation Equity Act Reauthorization Update (Patricia White, Director of Habitats and Highway Campaign, Defenders of Wildlife)
3:45-4:45

Agenda Setting: The Critical Issues

  • • Research and Data Collection (Keith Knapp, UW-Madison)
  • • Funding (Patricia White, Defenders of Wildlife)
  • • Partnership Building (Richard Miller, Michigan Deer Crash Coalition)
  • • Technology Transfer and Education (Katie McDermott, Technology Transfer Director, North Carolina State University Center for Transportation and the Environment)
4:45-5:00 Tomorrow’s Plan and Adjourn
5:00-6:30 Reception
7:30-9:00 Clearinghouse Technical Advisory Committee Meeting

 

October 25, 2005
7:30 – 8:30 Continental Breakfast and Clearinghouse Board Meeting
8:30 – 8:45 Agenda Setting Groups
Group Organization
Assignment of Facilitators
Sample Questions
Agenda Setting Expectations
8:45-9:00 Find Rooms and Organize
9:00-10:00

Agenda Setting Group Discussions

  • • Research and Data Collection
  • • Funding
  • • Partnership Building
  • • Technology Transfer and Education
10:00-10:15 Break
10:15-12:00 Continue Focal Group Discussions
12:00-1:00 Lunch (Speaker: Managing a Wildlife Accident Reporting System, Leonard Sielecki, British Columbia Ministry of Transportation, Victoria, BC, Canada)
1:00-2:20 Agenda Setting Group Reports
2:20-2:45 Meeting Summary
2:45 ADJOURN
3:00-4:00 Informal Deer-Vehicle Crash Information and Research Center Pooled Fund (Current and Potential Future Participating Agency Representatives Invited)