How to Maintain Safe and Effective Mitigation Measures

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How to Maintain Safe and Effective Mitigation Measures

van der Ree, Rodney / Tonjes, Stephen

Roads and their associated infrastructure require regular inspection and maintenance to detect and repair faults before they pose a hazard to motorists and while the cost of repair remains relatively low. Mitigation measures for wildlife (e.g. crossing structures, wildlife detection systems, fencing) also need to be inspected and maintained to ensure they remain structurally sound and functional. Monitoring equipment must also be adequately maintained to ensure the monitoring programme is not disrupted. However, maintenance is often overlooked or ignored, resulting in ineffective mitigation measures that ultimately waste money and endanger wildlife and road users. 1

Routine roadside maintenance must not reduce the effectiveness of a mitigation measure.

Inspection and maintenance of wildlife mitigation measures must address both structural and functional integrity.

Ecological experts and maintenance engineers should develop and review maintenance programmes together.

Develop specific systems, procedures and funding for maintenance of mitigation measures, and incorporate them into existing programmes.

Maintenance engineers must be involved in the design stages of the project.

The maintenance programme should facilitate research and monitoring.

The development and implementation of schedules and procedures to maintain mitigation measures is critical, and transportation agencies must incorporate the maintenance of mitigation measures into everyday practice.

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Titel :

How to Maintain Safe and Effective Mitigation Measures

Beteiligte:

van der Ree, Rodney (Herausgeber:in) / Smith, Daniel J. (Herausgeber:in) / Grilo, Clara (Herausgeber:in) / van der Ree, Rodney (Autor:in) / Tonjes, Stephen (Autor:in)

Erschienen in:

Handbook of Road Ecology ; 138-142

Erscheinungsdatum :

2015-04-01

Format / Umfang :

5 pages

ISBN :

9781118568187 , 9781118568170

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118568170.ch17

Medientyp :

Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)