Technology and risk considerations in shaping future drone legislation

Wright, Stephen; Studley, Matthew

Abstract

The global aviation industry has decades-old and highly successful legislation enforcing safety in conventional manned aerospace. This framework has been evolved gradually around a set of mature technologies with particular goals and implementations, and legislators are now struggling to integrate the profoundly different implications of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology into this regulatory environment. This paper seeks to inform future UAV policy by highlighting its technological and distinctiveness from conventional aviation and making recommendations for future legislation, based on these observations.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: May 1, 2020
• Online Publication Date: Jul 17, 2021
• Publication Date: 2021
• Deposit Date: Jul 30, 2020
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 18, 2022
• Journal: International Journal of Technology, Policy and Management
• Print ISSN: 1468-4322
• Electronic ISSN: 1741-5292
• Publisher: Inderscience
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 21
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 128-139
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1504/IJTPM.2021.116513
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/5954371