Wildlife Warning Signs: Public Assessment of Components, Placement and Designs to Optimise Driver Response.

ABSTRACT: Wildlife warning signs are the most commonly used and widespread form of road impact mitigation, aimed at reducing the incidence of wildlife-vehicle collisions. Evidence of the effectiveness of currently used signs is rare and often indicates minimal change in driver behaviour. Improving the design of these signs to increase the likelihood of appropriate driver response has the potential to reduce the incidence of wildlife-vehicle collisions. This study aimed to examine and assess the opinions of drivers on wildlife warning sign designs through a public opinion survey. Three currently used sign designs and five alternative sign designs were compared in the survey. A total of 134 drivers were surveyed. The presence of temporal specifications and an updated count of road-killed animals on wi

SUBMITTER: Bond AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4494358 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature