Factors influencing a motorist's ability to detect deer at night

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 94, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 250-254

  Mastro, Lauren L ^a   Conover, Michael R ^a   Frey, S Nicole ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Deer vehicle collisions; Roads; Vehicle accidents

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS; REFLECTION; ROADS AND STREETS; VEHICLES;

HIGH-BEAM HEADLIGHTS; LOW BEAM; MINIMIZING THE NUMBER OF; ROADS; SIMILAR DISTANCE; VEHICLE ACCIDENTS; VEHICLE COLLISIONS;

HEADLIGHTS;

ACCIDENT; AUTOMOBILE; DEER; DETECTION METHOD; EDGE EFFECT; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT LOSS; NOCTURNAL ACTIVITY; ROADKILL; ROADSIDE ENVIRONMENT;

CERVIDAE;

EID: 74149083976     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2009.10.010     Document Type: Article

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