The State of the Practice of UAS Applications in Transportation
The objective of this research was to establish the state of the practice of unmanned aircraft system (UAS) applications in the transportation profession, with particular interest in understanding how other state departments of transportation across the United States are using UASs. To accomplish the objective, a survey was conducted among state departments of transportation to understand how they implemented UAS applications in their business. In addition, an exhaustive literature search was conducted to identify applications of UASs in the transportation profession. Based on the above understanding, recommendations were made regarding the development of an internal policy and a standard operating procedure for using UASs, as well as a pilot program consisting of three UAS applications in each division of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation.
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Corporate Authors:
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
130 Natural Resources Road
Amherst, MA United States 01003Massachusetts Department of Transportation
Office of Transportation Planning
Boston, MA United StatesFederal Highway Administration
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, DC United States 20590 -
Authors:
- Ni, Daiheng
- Plotnikov, Michael
- Publication Date: 2016-12-9
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Edition: Final Report
- Features: References; Tables;
- Pagination: 31p
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Drones; State departments of transportation; State of the practice; Transportation policy
- Identifier Terms: Massachusetts Department of Transportation
- Geographic Terms: United States
- Subject Areas: Aviation; Planning and Forecasting; Policy;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01667195
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: NTL, TRIS, ATRI, USDOT, STATEDOT
- Created Date: Apr 25 2018 11:14AM