Comparing Regional Energy Consumption for Direct Drone and Truck Deliveries
Drone delivery, once thought of as fictitious, is becoming a reality with the efforts of both forward-looking enterprises and supportive government policies. In this recent study in Transportation Research Record, TRB's journal, the authors develop and apply methods to quantify the regional energy impacts of drone delivery, then assess these impacts and compare them with the impacts of truck delivery.
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