Abstract

Topic: Moose management and monitoring

Global patterns of Moose-Vehicle Collisions

Karolina D. Jasińska¹, Roy V. Rea²

Department of Forest Zoology and Wildlife Management, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Nowoursynowska 159, 02-776 Warsaw, Poland
Ecosystem Science and Management, University of Northern British Columbia, 3333 University Way, Prince George, British Columbia V2N 4Z9, Canada

In the last few decades, interest in accidents between animals and vehicles has increased. Research has focused on topics such as the influence of time, landscape structure, traffic, and population size on the number of such events. Moreover, research has produced practical products for preventing animal-vehicle collisions, and wildlife management. Much of the research has concerned collisions with moose because of the large size of the moose and costly damages, including moose and human injuries or even death of both moose and humans. The goal of our research was to analyse current knowledge about moose-vehicle collisions on roads and railways, including years and location of published research. We used the program Publish or Perish to search papers, technical reports, and dissertations collected on the Google Scholar website. As keywords, we used “moose”, “vehicle”, and “collision”. In total, over 14,000 records were found, but most of them were papers unrelated to our research objectives. We found 80 records, mostly published papers, from the years 1983-2024. Most of the research was done in the 1990s and early 2000s. Moose-vehicle collisions were analysed most often in Canada (30 records), USA (25 records), and Sweden (10 records). Additional research was done in Norway, Finland, Poland, and Lithuania. Our research emphasizes a lack of available publications on moose-vehicle collisions across the Asian range of moose.