Study on a Deterrent against Deer Collisions in Railway Operation Environment

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This paper introduces a study on the efficacy of a bird deterrent, the "Marine Saponin", to deer in a real railway operation environment.This deterrent has been developed for years but has not yet been tested in the transportation aspect.A field experiment was conducted using railway vehicles in normal commercial operation on a line in an area with high deer population.Front view videos from the vehicles involved in the experiment were recorded.An original dataset for object recognition model for identification of deer in the videos was constructed mainly using recorded scenes of officially reported deer collisions.With this model, deer that were encountered by the railway vehicles were recognized and categorized.Although the efficacy of "Marine Saponin" was not scientifically verified due to small sample size, it was regarded as a highly potential method.The behavior patterns of deer spotted but not involved in accidents were first obtained by computer vision in this study and contributed to statistical significance tests.

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