Drones in last-mile delivery: A systematic review on Efficiency, Accessibility, and Sustainability

V Garg, S Niranjan, V Prybutok, T Pohlen… - … Research Part D …, 2023 - Elsevier
With the rise of e-commerce, there has been a surge in demand for efficient and accessible
last-mile delivery options, leading to the examination of promising new technologies such as …

Urban traffic monitoring and analysis using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs): A systematic literature review

EV Butilă, RG Boboc - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are gaining considerable interest in transportation
engineering in order to monitor and analyze traffic. This systematic review surveys the …

Consumer preferences for innovative and traditional last-mile parcel delivery

R Merkert, MCJ Bliemer, M Fayyaz - International Journal of Physical …, 2022 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this research is to reveal consumer preferences towards innovative
last-mile parcel delivery and more specifically unmanned aerial delivery drones, in …

The internet of drones: Requirements, taxonomy, recent advances, and challenges of research trends

A Abdelmaboud - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
The use of unmanned aerial vehicles or drones are a valuable technique in coping with
issues related to life in the general public's daily routines. Given the growing number of …

Weather constraints on global drone flyability

M Gao, CH Hugenholtz, TA Fox, M Kucharczyk… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Small aerial drones are used in a growing number of commercial applications. However,
drones cannot fly in all weather, which impacts their reliability for time-sensitive operations …

Drone-aided delivery methods, challenge, and the future: A methodological review

X Li, J Tupayachi, A Sharmin, M Martinez Ferguson - Drones, 2023 - mdpi.com
The use of drones for package delivery, commonly known as drone delivery or unmanned
aerial vehicle (UAV) delivery, has gained significant attention from academia and industries …

Possibilities for applying the circular economy in the aerospace industry: Practices, opportunities and challenges

VMR Dias, D Jugend, P de Camargo Fiorini… - Journal of Air Transport …, 2022 - Elsevier
Although recent studies have pointed out the circular economy (CE) as one of the main
trends in environmental sustainability, little is known about its applications in the aerospace …

Eyes in the sky: drones applications in the built environment under climate change challenges

N Bayomi, JE Fernandez - Drones, 2023 - mdpi.com
This paper reviews the diverse applications of drone technologies in the built environment
and their role in climate change research. Drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) …

Predicting demand for air taxi urban aviation services using machine learning algorithms

S Rajendran, S Srinivas, T Grimshaw - Journal of Air Transport …, 2021 - Elsevier
This research focuses on predicting the demand for air taxi urban air mobility (UAM) services
during different times of the day in various geographic regions of New York City using …

Aerial: A meta review and discussion of challenges toward unmanned aerial vehicle operations in logistics, mobility, and monitoring

S Wandelt, S Wang, C Zheng… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
There exists a tremendous number of research surveys on various aspects of UAV logistics,
mobility and monitoring tasks in the literature. These surveys have been published in distinct …