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DroneWaves: Urban planning for drone delivery

UrbanPlanning expert talks about urban logistics challenges with drone delivery.

This fireside chat recap is from FreightWaves’ DroneWaves Summit.

FIRESIDE CHAT TOPIC: Planning urban centers for drone delivery

DETAILS: Kaylee Nix, a reporter at FreightWaves, and Joshua Goldstein chat about how UrbanFootprint is taking a data-driven approach to planning layouts of urban environments. The logistics of drone operations and getting governmental approval in cities is quite complicated.

SPEAKER: Goldstein is the director of business development and partnerships at UrbanFootprint.

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Without planning, drones represent a flying traffic nightmare

If drone delivery finally takes off, how long will it be before the first package is delayed due to congestion?

That is one of the issues drone manufacturers are trying to solve for right now, before it becomes a nightmare scenario. Israel has undertaken a two-year pilot to develop integrated communications systems to coordinate dozens of drones flying at the same time in small areas.

“This is an opportunity for the regulators to learn what is needed to establish delivery drones as a daily...

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