Case Studies
Sharing practical experiences.
Here you’ll find easy-to-read case studies of real-life projects and experiences from around the world to help you better plan, build and manage ecologically sustainable linear infrastructure. Case studies are written by practitioners working on road, rail, powerline and other linear infrastructure projects and showcase what worked, what failed and lessons learnt.
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Restoring a Benchmark: How Community, Council, and Science Revived the Compton Road Wildlife Overpass
In the early 2000s, Brisbane City Council made history with the construction of the Compton Road fauna array – one of Australia’s first purpose-built wildlife overpasses, complemented by a network of underpasses, glider poles, and rope ladders. Strategically located between Kuraby Bushland and Karawatha Forest, the array was designed to reconnect fragmented habitats within the Flinders–Karawatha Corridor: the largest remaining stretch of continuous forest in southeast Queensland.
Taking the landscape and the people seriously: Cooperation leads to multiple safe passages for wildlife in a suburban setting in Brisbane, Australia
What appeared to be an environmental disaster became a major achievement when community groups convinced a multinational road operator that a planned motorway upgrade offered an opportunity for reconnecting a severed landscape, with international recognition as one of the rewards.