Temporal patterns of deer-vehicle collisions consistent with deer activity pattern and density increase but not general accident risk

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 81, Issue , 2015, Pages 143-152

  Hothorn, Torsten ^a   Müller, Jörg ^b,c   Held, Leonhard ^a   Möst, Lisa ^d   Mysterud, Atle ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b BAVARIAN FOREST NATIONAL PARK   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Deer density; Deer vehicle accident; Seasonality; Traffic mortality; Ungulate vehiclecollision

Indexed keywords

HEALTH RISKS; VEHICLES;

DRIVER-WARNING SYSTEMS; HUMAN ACTIVITY PATTERNS; NON-PARAMETRIC SMOOTHING; PARAMETRIC MODELLING; SEASONALITY; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL; UNGULATE-VEHICLECOLLISION; VEHICLE ACCIDENTS;

ACCIDENTS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; CAR DRIVING; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DEER; GERMANY; HUMAN; POPULATION GROWTH; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; RISK; RISK FACTOR; SEASON; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ANIMALS; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DEER; GERMANY; HUMANS; POPULATION GROWTH; RISK; RISK FACTORS; SEASONS;

EID: 84929333653     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2015.04.037     Document Type: Article

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