Effectiveness of highway crosswalk structures at reducing deer-vehicle collisions

Wildlife Society Bulletin

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 809-818

  Lehnert, Mark E ^a,b   Bissonette, John A ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Mathematics Specialist Cornell University

Author keywords

Crosswalk; Deer vehicle collisions; Mule deer; Odocoileus hemionus; Underpasses; Utah

Indexed keywords

DERR; HIGHWAY CROSSWALK; MORTALITY;

USA, UTAH;

ODOCOILEUS HEMIONUS;

EID: 0031410626     PISSN: 00917648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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