Investigating Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Application Requirements within a Department of Transportation
This paper explores the feasibility of using Unmanned Aerial Systems (UASs) in Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) operations. The research team conducted 24 interviews with personnel in four GDOT divisions. Following an interview validation process, a set of UASs design characteristics fulfilling user requirements of each previously identified division were developed. A “House of Quality” viewgraph was chosen to capture the relationships between GDOT tasks and potential UASs aiding those operations. As a result, five reference systems are proposed. This study introduces a variety of UAS applications in traffic management, transportation and construction disciplines related to Department of Transportations (DOTs), such as the ability to get real time, digital photographs/videos of traffic scenes or providing a "bird’s eye view" which was previously only achievable with the assistance of a manned aircraft. The results of this study could lead to further research on design, development, and field-testing of UASs for applications identified as beneficial to DOTs.
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Supplemental Notes:
- This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AFB80 Geospatial Data Acquisition Technologies in Design and Construction.
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Corporate Authors:
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Authors:
- Gheisari, Masoud
- Karan, Ebrahim P
- Christmann, H Claus
- Irizarry, Javier
- Johnson, Eric N
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Conference:
- Transportation Research Board 94th Annual Meeting
- Location: Washington DC, United States
- Date: 2015-1-11 to 2015-1-15
- Date: 2015
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Features: Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: 15p
- Monograph Title: TRB 94th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Automatic data collection systems; Drones; State departments of transportation; Traffic surveillance
- Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01555275
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: 15-1430
- Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
- Created Date: Feb 26 2015 10:05AM