Analysis: Comparing the two maps below, it is safe to assume that generally most wildlife traffic incidents occur in areas with fewer traffic and away from urbanized areas (places populated densely with highways). This is beneficial since building on areas with less disturbance on traffic flow will be less costly. There have been fewer wildlife-vehicle conflicts in urbanized areas, such as Los Angeles downtown. Data courtesy of the Road Ecology Center, UC Davis (http://roadecology.ucdavis.edu), Waetjen and Shilling (2017).

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