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HNTB+MVVA

Concept design for the winning entry in the 2010 ARC International Wildlife Crossing Infrastructure Design Competition by HNTB with Michael Van Valkenburgh & Associates.

ARC: Animal Road Crossings

What is ARC?

ARC is an interdisciplinary partnership working to facilitate new thinking, new methods, new materials and new solutions for wildlife crossing structures. Our goal is to ensure safe passage for both humans and animals on and across our roads. Situated at the intersection of science and design, we are a forum for creative collaborations and surprising synergies.

Paula MacKay, WTI

Wildlife-vehicle collisions pose a significant risk to a wide range of wildlife species and their populations throughout North America.

ARC: Animal Road Crossings

New Thinking

A growing threat to people and to animals, collisions between wildlife and vehicles have been increased by 50 percent in the last 15 years. These accidents now cost Americans $8 billion every year.

ARC engages new thinking to design crossing structures that reconnect landscapes, safeguarding our wildlife populations, their habitats and our ecosystems. The right solution will reduce the number of collisions to save human and animal lives, at a lower cost, improving highway safety for all.

HNTB+MVVA

Wildlife crossings offer new opportunities for innovative research and educational outreach, such as infrared web-cameras that feed real-time visual data to handheld applications for  scientists and the public alike.

ARC: Animal Road Crossings

New Methods

Integrating science and design, ARC is changing the way people and animals see and understand our landscapes. We use interdisciplinary collaboration and international cooperation to address a continental problem at local sites and scales.

Janet Rosenberg & Associates

“An animal's world is vision, sound, touch, smell. It's not about language. You have to get into the sensory world in order to understand them.” – Temple Grandin

ARC: Animal Road Crossings

New Materials

Dynamic conditions demand flexible solutions and responsive materials. ARC explores new, sustainable infrastructure material strategies to respond to people, animals, and their shared environments.

Yves LeBlanc

Animals need several types of structures to ensure safe passage across roadways. Underpasses, like this example in Québec, are the more common type of crossing structure while overpasses are important habitat linkages in other locations.

ARC: Animal Road Crossings

New Solutions

ARC works to implement creative solutions for wildlife crossing infrastructure to benefit humans and animals. Our success depends on partners and projects across North America.

Join us, and become part of the solution.

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What Is ARC
How can design
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wild places?
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New Thinking
Why
are animals
dying on
our roads?
New Methods
What can transform a road into a place?
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New Materials
Can exploring
new materials
change how we
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What’s been done
about roadkill,
and why isn’t it
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Together,
we are working
to create
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"There have been some tragic accidents from people being involved in wildlife collisions. You can’t put a value on a person’s life."
Frosty Marriott
Carbondale, CO
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