Safety Assessment and Risk Estimation for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Operating in National Airspace System

This paper proposes an effective approach for modelling and assessing the risks associated with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) integrated into national airspace system (NAS). Two critical hazards with UAV operations are considered and analyzed, which are ground impacts and midair collisions. Threat...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Xuejun Zhang, Yang Liu, Yu Zhang, Xiangmin Guan, Daniel Delahaye, Li Tang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi-Wiley 2018-01-01
Series:Journal of Advanced Transportation
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/4731585