Deer and Road Traffic Accidents: Options for Management

摘要

Statistics from the U.S. or from Continental Europe suggest that damage to persons and property arising from road or railway accidents involving deer amounts to a very significant annual total and is increasing everywhere. Despite this, the relative efficacy or cost-effectiveness of different control options is poorly understood. This review presents an analysis of deer movement patterns in relation to roads in order to try and develop some general conclusions about the probable or expected pattern and behaviour of road crossings. Based on such framework the various possible options available for reducing accident rates are more formally evaluated. The review focuses primarily on deer and roadside management within Europe.