Rural Needs, Statewide Answers: Deer-Vehicle Collisions
Throughout 2024 as part of our Rural Needs, Statewide Answers campaign, CTS is producing a series of profiles of individuals, organizations, and projects to highlight issues in rural transportation — as well as research that seeks to better understand and address them.
Thousands of Minnesotans every year experience deer-vehicle collisions, or “DVCs.” How many thousand — and where exactly those DVCs are most likely to occur—is the focus of a MnDOT-sponsored research project by Ron Moen and Raphael Stern. Moen is a wildlife biologist at the Natural Resources Research Institute in Duluth, Minnesota. Stern is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geo- Engineering at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities.
“Identifying Deer-Vehicle Collision Concentrations in Minnesota” started as a pilot project involving literature review, data collection and modeling, and field work in the Duluth area.
An interactive map developed for the project applies the model to every road segment in the state.
Read more about DVCs and the Rural Needs series at https://www.cts.umn.edu/research/feat...