The UK’s Transport Research and Innovation Board (TRIB) is holding a series of workshops this month as part of its drone mapping project, which examines how drones are currently being used, trialled and developed.
The project is working to map existing and planned drone activities, including their applications, locations, organisations involved, delivery arrangements and future plans.
TRIB works closely with the UK Department for Transport. The board’s previous work in the sector has resulted in the Barriers and Pathways to Adoption Report, which provides insight into the regulatory, operational and technical challenges facing wider drone integration.
The first of the drone mapping project workshops took place on 4 November in London. This will be followed by a virtual event on 11 November and workshops in Birmingham and Edinburgh on 19 and 26 November respectively. The Association of Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems UK (ARPAS-UK) said the workshops are aimed primarily at transport and public-sector organisations.
The workshops will review and validate emerging findings from the project’s literature review and scan of UK and international drone applications, regulations and research. TRIB will then identify priority use cases where there may be opportunities for organisations to collaborate.