Sharing airspace with Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs): Views of the General Aviation (GA) community

Grote, Matt; Pilko, Aliaksei; Scanlan, James P.; Cherrett, Tom; Dickinson, Janet; Smith, Angela; Oakey, Andy; Marsden, Greg

doi:10.1016/j.jairtraman.2022.102218

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“…Restricted airspace areas such as airports or military bases further limit the available space for drone deliveries. [23].…”

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Utilization of Aerial Drone Technology in Logistics

Aksentijević,

Martišković,

Tijan

et al. 2023

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In order to create a supply chain that is both economically and ecologically sustainable and complies with contemporary standards, the logistics chain must be modernized and should rely on new technology. In this article, the authors will attempt to elaborate the development direction of delivery systems through examples of technology-oriented companies such as Amazon, focusing on the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) for delivering smaller packages within urban and suburban environments. The main goal of using drones in urban logistics is to reduce the burden on city roads and the use of road vehicles that generate the highest gaseous emissions footprint. The use of drones has proven to be extremely flexible and useful in port logistics as well, eliminating the need to send supply vessels into rough seas or putting people in danger during exhaust emission control. However, drones are a relatively new technology, and they have their own limitations, which are still being discovered. The main constraints of the devices themselves are power sources and the power of the aircraft, which currently and likely in the future won’t be able to transport heavier commercial loads. Increased use leads to congestion in airspace, posing risks to other modes of transportation such as road or air. Research shows that the current use of drones mainly revolves around test flights or limited applications within a regulated environment.

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“…Restricted airspace areas such as airports or military bases further limit the available space for drone deliveries. [23].…”

Section: Challenges Of Drone Use In Logisticsmentioning

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Utilization of Aerial Drone Technology in Logistics

Aksentijević,

Martišković,

Tijan

et al. 2023

JMTS

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“…Specifically in the UK, there are two ways in which drone companies can operate services [13,14]. The first requires that they stay below a height of 400 ft above ground, away from airports and uncontrolled crowds as well as remaining within Visual Line of Sight (VLoS) of a safety pilot, who is able to take over control at all times.…”

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“…The first requires that they stay below a height of 400 ft above ground, away from airports and uncontrolled crowds as well as remaining within Visual Line of Sight (VLoS) of a safety pilot, who is able to take over control at all times. These restrictions make a viable logistics operation very difficult to establish [13,14]. The alternative is for the drone platform to undergo additional airworthiness scrutiny by the NAA and for the operator apply for an exclusive volume of airspace, called a "Temporary Danger Area" (TDA) in the UK.…”

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“…Currently, in order to fly Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLoS) in the UK a TDA must be established [13,14], primarily because separation cannot be reliably ensured with other aircraft. As a result, there is strong interest in solving this problem and eliminating the need for TDAs.…”

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“…Whilst TDAs solve the immediate issue of the lack of a known traffic environment and the resultant chance of a mid air collision, they can cause negative externalities such as funneling other air traffic into bottlenecks and causing additional route deviations, mainly for general aviation traffic. For these reasons, TDAs are generally seen as undesirable by the general aviation community [13,14].…”

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Drones are being considered as an alternative transport mode to ground based van networks. Whilst the speed and application of such networks has been extensively studied, the safety aspects of such modes have not been directly compared. Using UK Department for Transport data and a drone flight planning approach using a probabilistic risk model, an estimation of fatality rates for seven origin-destination (O-D) pairs was undertaken in a theoretical case study of medical deliveries in the Southampton area of the UK. Using failure rates from the literature, results indicated that commercial vehicles (<3.5 T) were safer than drones in all cases by ≤12.73 (12.73 times more fatalities by drone than by road). With the O-D pairs covering a range of localities, routes covering more mileage on minor roads were found to be the least safe but were still ≥1.87 times safer than drone deliveries. Sensitivity tests on the modelled drone failure rates suggested that the probability of a failure would have to be ≤5.35×10−4 per flight-hour for drone risk to be equal to van risk. Investigating the circuity of drone routes (how direct a route is) identified that level of risk had a significant impact on travel distances, with the safest paths being 273% longer than the riskier, straight-line flight equivalent. The findings suggest that the level of acceptable risk when designing drone routes may negatively impact on the timeliness of drone deliveries due to the increased travel distance and time that could be incurred.

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Airport operations with electric-powered towing alternatives under stochastic conditions

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Sharing airspace with Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs): Views of the General Aviation (GA) community

Cited by 18 publications

References 23 publications

Utilization of Aerial Drone Technology in Logistics

Utilization of Aerial Drone Technology in Logistics

Are Drones Safer Than Vans?: A Comparison of Routing Risk in Logistics

Airport operations with electric-powered towing alternatives under stochastic conditions

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