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NCDOT recommends drones for speedier crash investigations
A study by the North Carolina Department of Transportation’s Division of Aviation recommends drones for speeding up accident investigations. The study says that large accident scenes can be documented in less than 30 minutes with drones versus almost 2 hours with current investigative methods. Such quicker documentation can also lead to faster reopening of roads […]
October 4, 2017
Roadbuilding
How DOTs could use drones to assess infrastructure damage from natural disasters
Researchers from the University of New Mexico (UNM), San Diego State University, and BAE Systems are working on a prototype drone system that could be used to detect and map transportation infrastructure damage as a result of natural disasters. The benefit is the speed at which these machines can reach a disaster area, which many […]
March 31, 2015
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