Registration is now available for the September 18 Talking Freight Seminar.

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Date/Time: September 18, 2019  1:00 – 2:30 pm ET

 

Topic: Delivery by Drone: Examining Benefits, Impacts, and Regulations

 

Registration: https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/freight/fpd/talking_freight/index.htm

 

Description and Presentations: To improve the efficiency of freight movements, various emerging technologies are being studied and in some cases implemented.  One of those new technologies is using drones to make package deliveries.  Drones, which are relatively small, remote controlled, aerial vehicles that can fly short to intermediate length distances many feet above the ground, may have the potential to significantly alter or enhance freight deliveries, particularly for smaller-sized shipments and in high density urban areas where traffic congestion creates challenges for freight carriers.  Despite the possible benefits, there are also concerns about drone shipments, both from freight carriers, who worry their customers’ products or the drones themselves may be stolen or damaged by people who unintentionally or intentionally tamper with the shipments, and from government agencies, who fear drones could violate airspace regulations, create safety hazards, or invade on people’s privacy.  The benefits vs. costs of drone deliveries, both in freight delivery operational and fiscal efficiency terms and in societal impact terms, are still in the process of being determined.

 

This webinar will discuss the strengths and weaknesses of delivery drones relative to other freight transportation modes.  It will also examine some of the operational and regulatory considerations that will need to be addressed if or when drone deliveries increase in the future.

 

How Transportation Impacts of Delivery Drones Compare to Other Delivery Modes

This presentation will provide an overview of the relative strengths and weaknesses of delivery drones as a freight transportation mode compared to other, long-established or emerging freight transport methods.

SPEAKER:

• Erica Wygonik, RSG

 

Unmanned Aircraft Systems Package Delivery Opportunities: Possible Threats and Opportunities for State and Local Governments

This presentation will discuss the regulatory issues delivery drones could create for state and local governments and the benefits drones could provide for those same government agencies.

SPEAKER:

• Daniel Friedenzohn, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

 

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Viewpoint on Delivery Drones

This presentation will examine the FAA’s perspective on drone-based deliveries, including regulatory issues that will need to be addressed to enable increased drone deliveries.

SPEAKER:

• Joe Morra, Federal Aviation Administration

 

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If you have not yet participated in Talking Freight, I encourage you to do so. These monthly seminars, sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration, are held via web conference, which means that you view the PowerPoint presentations over the Internet while listening to the presenters over your computer or the telephone. There is no cost involved and you do not have to leave your desk to participate. More information about Talking Freight is available at http://www.ops.fhwa.dot.gov/freight/fpd/talking_freight/index.htm  Links to past presentations and recordings are available on http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/freightplanning/talking.htm. 

 

Talking Freight seminars are eligible for 1.5 AICP Certification Maintenance Credits (for AICP members). In order to receive credit, you must attend the full seminar and login to the seminar with your full name or type your full name into the chat area during the seminar if you are in a room with a group of people. Visit the AICP web site for more information about AICP Certification Maintenance Credits.

 

In addition, those who are interested can obtain a certificate for 1.5 PDH hours.

 

If you have any questions about the webinar content, please contact Chip Millard, FHWA Freight Office, at 202-366-4415 or [log in to unmask].  If you have any questions about the technology aspects of the webinar, please contact Jennifer Symoun, Toxcel, 703-754-0248, [log in to unmask].

 

 

Jennifer Symoun, PMP | toXcel
Director, Transportation Technology

Office: 703.754.0248 (x8208)
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