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UAS Integration Pilot Program (IPP)

NCDOT Division of Aviation January 2019

North Carolina Aviation Timeline

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2015

UAS Integration Pilot Program

• Established by PRESIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM
• TEST and EVALUATE various models of state, local and

tribal government involvement in the development of regulations

• ENCOURAGE UAS operators to develop and test new

innovative UAS CONOPS

• INFORM development of federal guidelines and

regulatory decisions on UAS operations nationwide

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FAA UAS Integration Pilot Program (IPP)

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NCDOT’s Winning Proposal

• Tests local UAS package delivery

within rural, suburban and urban areas in North Carolina

• Focus:

– Medical package delivery – Food delivery – Transportation infrastructure inspection

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North Carolina IPP Team

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Local Government Universities Industry

NCDOT IPP

• Rural medical package delivery focus
• Operational in Rwanda since October 2016
• Only company with autonomous deliveries

at national scale

• 150,000 miles flown (circling the globe 5.5x)
• 5,000+ operational BLVOS flights
• 10,000 units of blood delivered, hundreds of

lives saved

• 50-mile operational radius
• All-weather capable fixed-wing drones
• 15 hospitals 100% reliant on Zipline blood

supply delivery

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• Urban medical package delivery focus
• Operational in Switzerland delivering lab

samples

• 4000+ autonomous flights
• 1,300 urban BLVOS delivery flights since

October 2017

• All-weather drone with 12-mile range
• Secure landing station that changes

batteries and delivery items

• Authorized for BVLOS operations over

Bern, Zurich and Lugano, Switzerland

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Flytrex

• Suburban food package delivery focus
• On-demand food delivery service to

customers in NC

• BVLOS operations in Iceland, Panama

and Costa Rica

• Operating automated aerial deliveries,

from delivery stations located in central commercial areas and distribution centers

• Orders made using an online ordering

portal (app)

• Using a single station all residents living

within a 3-mile radius from the station could be potentially served

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NC Department of Transportation

• Transportation Infrastructure

Inspection

• Operations under Part 107 and COA
• BVLOS and operations over people
• Routine inspection, natural disaster

response, critical construction phase inspection

• Airports, bridges, construction

projects, landslides, rail corridors, traffic monitoring

• Internal NCDOT operators/flight

teams

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Program Benefits

NC Benefits

• Continues our

leadership in UAS innovation

• Promotes UAS industry

and job growth

• Offers hands-on STEM

educational outreach Consumer Benefits

• On-demand service

and faster results

• Reduced time to

treatment, potential to save lives

• Potential for lower

patient costs Industry Benefits

• Opens new markets for
• n-demand delivery
• Informs and assists

product development

• Accelerates the

adoption of regulations

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NCDOT IPP

Planned NC Operations

Urban Example

Rural Example

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NCDOT IPP * Example routes. Actual routes and locations TBD

UAS Route Planning

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Infrastructure Zoning Over People Aircraft Traffic Weather

First Flight: Medical Package Delivery

Matternet at Wake Med | Aug. 29, 2018

Task: Fly a lab sample from a medical surgical center to main WakeMed campus Test:

• Package delivery
• Remote ID
• Air space management tool
• Flight over people

Routine Flights:

• Start Jan.-Feb. 2019

NCDOT IPP

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Hurricane Florence Response

• NCDOT Led 15 UAS Teams
• Over 260 missions flown
• Over 8,000 videos/photos

uploaded to statewide map

• Over 45 live streaming events
• Coordinated response with zero

incidents

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Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM)

• AIRMAP tool developed

to track UAS

• Operators use app to ID

UAS and location

• Customized to manage

NCDOT UAS traffic during Hurricane Florence response

• Working with NASA in

developing statewide UTM system

NCDOT IPP

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Community Engagement Plans

• EDUCATION: Workshops,

forums, community events

• INFORMATION: News releases,

video, social media, online updates

• NETWORKING: College,

university, K-12 partnerships, courses, training, use cases

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NCDOT IPP

NC Continued Path Forward

Urban Air Mobility (UAM)

• Infrastructure Inspection
• Routine Medical Package

Delivery

• Routine Food/Parcel Package

Delivery

• Autonomous Ambulatory Services
• Single Pilot Cargo Aircraft
• Unmanned Cargo Aircraft
• Unmanned Traffic Management

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Questions?

NCDOT Division of Aviation UAS@ncdot.gov | 919-814-0550 www.ncdot.gov/aviation/uas Basil Yap UAS Program Manager

NCDOT IPP