NSW Gov To House Drones Permanently At Traffic Hotspots - Cybernoz - Cybersecurity News

Drone tech keeping roads safe and moving - Infrastructure Magazine

Image: pavlobaliukh/stock.adobe.com  The New South Wales Government has deployed a new drone technology that will enable faster responses to emergencies and traffic snarls on key road corridors.   In an Australian first, Transport for NSW will be able to fly drones alongside and across highways for remotely piloted scheduled flights, without spotters, enabling them to rapidly respond to incidents near Greater Sydney traffic hotspots.  The first …

NSW govt to base remotely-piloted drones at traffic hotspots

A number of drones will be housed near major traffic hotspots in Sydney and controlled by pilots more than 50km away in an Australian-first aiming to improve responses to emergencies and traffic incidents. The New South Wales government on Wednesday announced that drone-in-a-box technology will be installed along the M1 at Mooney Mooney and the Hume Highway at Narellan. They will be deployed to get “an eye in the sky faster” when there is a traf…

NSW Gov To House Drones Permanently At Traffic Hotspots - Cybernoz - Cybersecurity News

The NSW government is expanding a drone program for traffic monitoring, installing them at key points along major arterial roads where they can be remotely operated. Image credit: Transport for NSW To date, drones have been operated by pilots where visual line of sight can be maintained, although there were plans last year to mount drones to Transport for NSW response vehicles and remotely operate them. It’s not clear if that went ahead, but th…

NSW gov to house drones permanently at traffic hotspots

Has permission to fly them completely remotely.