Abstract
Realizing the benefits of drones while minimizing public concerns requires development and implementation of drone use policies that are grounded in an understanding of drone users and their behavior. This study aims to contribute to data-driven smart cities by filling our gap in knowledge about city drone users and their compliance behavior. The literature review has identified the main factors affecting drone policy compliance. This study collects data via a national survey of adults on drone behavior and focuses on city drone users. The results show that city drone users are younger with more dispersed educational backgrounds and income distribution than those in the general population. Moreover, civic duty, trust in government, and knowledge about regulatory requirements are motivators for drone users to comply with drone regulation.
Highlights
Smart cities use technological solutions to improve the management and efficiency of the urban environment at reduced cost [1]
The goal of this study is to generate knowledge about city drone users for smart city policy makers and managers to devise data-driven regulatory practices to realize the benefits of drones while minimizing their negative impacts
Such knowledge fills an important gap in the understanding of individual drone users’ compliance behavior, which is essential for beneficial use of drones in our society with protection of safety and individual privacy
Summary
Smart cities use technological solutions to improve the management and efficiency of the urban environment at reduced cost [1]. With the continuing advances and innovations in a variety of emerging technologies—such as 5G networks, robotics, internet of things, and artificial intelligence—smart city design and operations were offered diverse intelligent solutions to manage city resources and services to residents. Safe and effective use of emerging UAS technology expands the scope of intelligent devices in a smart city environment, and provides innovative solutions to overcoming limitations imposed by existing city infrastructure. As a flexible and aerial mobile platform, UAS could be used in many fields in smart city operations, for instance, traffic management, infrastructure inspection, parcel delivery, and public safety. With the capabilities of fast deployment and real-time image data collection, UAS is considered a useful tool in traffic monitoring and management, and numerous cases have been studied and tested to support smart city traffic management using UAS [7,8,9]
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