Sustainable Usage of Freight Drones in City Centers, Proposition of Regulations for Safe Usage of Drones

Krzysztof Lewandowski
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Krzysztof Lewandowski: Department of Technical Systems Maintenance and Operation, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, 50-370 Wrocław, Poland

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 15, 1-8

Abstract: This article concentrates on the regulations for the sustainable usage of drones in the central area of cities. This paper does not present the development of freight drones. Here, we do not concentrate on the construction, maneuvering, and steering of one drone or groups of drones, although these aspects are very important for the development of drones. However, the most important usage aspect of drones is the safety conditions. Here, we present a review of the current regulations and also propose beginning a discussion about the technical regulations of the usage of freight drones in this time and after the end of this pandemic for the sustainable usage of them in cities. The regulations are very scattered in the area of the usage of drones. This paper proposes a uniform base of regulations for the usage of drones in city centers.

Keywords: freight drones; regulation; safety; urban area; safety usage; pandemic; time (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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