Managing the process of delivery of commercial products in New Zealand is focused foremost on the management function of planning which will be discussed in the paper. The future goals of the organization in the area of drones will be examined along with the future challenges of the company in this geographical area. The major contributions of the commercial drone delivery will be discussed and the potentials the country could have with their full implementation in the transport sector. The major challenges will be addressed such as safety, economics, civil aviation legislation as well as potential theft of deliveries.
Management functions of planning are focused on the drone for delivery and their main purpose of sustainability and cost effectiveness. The planning of introducing drone technology in New Zealand includes a first step of establishing the objectives. The company has developed goals of introducing the delivery drones by the end of the year 2016. The objectives to be reached is to decrease the time spend for the delivery of packages up to half an hour in every direction in the country which means that various starting stations will be set on the ground by which the customers will get products quicker as well as with greener technology used. Direction of effort will go towards achieving the greater number of deliveries done by drones in time in accordance to the package size and delivery distance and to become available across the whole country. With the drones the opportunities to reach remote citizens at the least environmental impact and costs are creating new opportunities.
Civil aviation legislation in the country currently does not distinguish between commercial and non-commercial flying. The basic framework is written under Part 102 based on the delivery drones weight as well as the need to flight beyond visual line of sight. The drones are going to be registered. It also will not be possible to obtain every consent of the people over which the drone flight because the routes will differ based on the address consumer. The clear line of control and responsibility will be established with seeking approval for operations within the whole country. The company will be included in the hazard register which will show that the launch and landing will be safely done. The company can start to operate under the legislation and meet the requirements posed by the Part 102 of the unmanned aircraft operations requirements for certification (Civil Aviation authority of New Zealand, 2015). The planning will be focused on obtaining the certificate and deliver the public well known structure of control and responsibility as well as way of operating.
The mission of the company is to use the available knowledge and skills to make environmentally and consumer friendly, cost efficient and safe commercial drone deliveries in the New Zealand. The safety in the near future will be improved with the improved sensor technology which will allow the safety with the human as well as animal interactions, new programs and increased data storage based on which the drones will have more reliable data on their delivery way (Ahmed, 2011). The collusion of drones with obstacles, other drones and planes as well as all moving and non-moving objects will be guaranteed with the sense and avoid technologies incorporated into the New Zealand delivery fleet. Situational awareness technology with scanning the surroundings will identify the potential obstacles in landing, taking off as well as in the air. The drones are going to be safe as well as a reliable way of transportation with the analyzing, sequence of components, quick decision making, forward planning of the routes and path following with the cameras and other sensors. There are still some challenges in developing the light and small sense and avoid technology, but there has been much progress seen and by the implementation of the infrastructure, obtain the necessary certificates and papers the possible better solutions for the drone fleet will be available (Zhang and Yu, 2015). The challenges how to deliver the items in extreme or bad weather conditions still remain, but fortunately the climate in New Zealand will not provide a lot of challenges. The potential to use the technology, DARPA has already tested the chances of collusion are decreasing and better detection of obstacles is increasing. On the other side currently the company can use the Hover map 3-D Lidar system already in function in Australia. The possibility of the drones to build an instant 3-D map of the surrounding with multiple sensors, cameras, light and range detection. The potential drone’s collusion will be prevented with cameras, radar, Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast with transmitting the data to the controllers and employees, even if the advance technology tested by DARPA will still not be commercially available and functional by the end of this year (Sneed, 2015).
Potential theft of the deliveries is one of the major concerns of the drone delivery. Based on the national statistics of New Zealand the theft is often in the country, since it has in the year 2014 represented 34.5 % of all recorded offences and hence it happened 119.323 times (Police National Headquarters, 2015). Dishonest offences should be treated as any other one with involving the police. The delivery instructions with the known hour of delivery and facial recognition under the camera surveillance which would be erased after the client has confirmed that the package was received will help to protect the delivery. The delivery can be observed in real time, which means that the client can see where the package is after the shipping. The drone delivery could be locked by the client’s special number received by with the notice of the time and place of the delivery which means only the client could open the package. All in all, there is also the insurance in case the delivery gets stolen. Achieving the sophistication, the prediction of failure can be assumed in around 2 to 3 thousand hours of flying. Based on the New Zealand privacy laws, there are still undefined areas and regulation regarding the aerial photography.
The delivery in New Zealand can be made based on the Ark Investment research very cost effective in comparison to other transportation deliveries. The drones could deliver packages to the people cheaper as other ways of transportation, which means the consumers will pay less for the same service and also there is a profit a company can make out of each delivery. High returns are achievable also with the investment of around 0.88 dollars per delivery (Ark Invest, n. p.).
Figure 1 Drone delivery comparison
Ark Invest, 2015.
The Figure 1 shows the cost effectiveness of the commercial drone deliveries in comparison to other delivery options. From this it is obvious that the drones can help to achieve the government of New Zealand future plans to improve the green technology and reduce the greenhouse gas emissions. Based on the New Zealand Energy Strategy (2011) the emissions of the transport sector in the country are increasing and the road transport is being responsible for 44% of all emissions in the energy sector. All in all, the drones with their potential to use renewable energy can reduce the environmental impact of the transport sector (Browne et al., 2015). The UVAs have the potential to be more energy efficient and save money in comparison to one hour of performing the same tasks the drones can accomplish. With the delivering the packages the use of fossil fuels will decrease.
In quantitative form there will be a small number of drones by the end of this year doing the traditional post-delivery jobs with more efficiency. With this the company will achieve more profit by reducing the money spent for unnecessary wages since the technology will reduce the working personnel and made the delivery safer, quicker, cleaner and cheaper. The safety is the most important so all hired operating personnel will be highly experienced in order to avoid security risks and damage. During the whole process the internal which include capital investment, policy management labor relation as well as externally with political and economic conditions will be closely monitored and analyzed in order to improve the drone delivery services. The forecast for the future are that New Zealand with the promotion of green an innovative technology will become one of the successful model for the drone delivery infrastructure. The company will deliver the drones in the country with building the necessary infrastructure with starting a sufficient number of drones in Auckland area which will expand in the near future. Frist the necessary papers will be obtained and the technology used in the delivery drones will modify based on the technological improvements. There is initial plan to implement drones in the transport delivery system and the alternative to achieve will include safety and security measures with the derivative plans which aim at reducing the costs, time delivery and environmental impact current delivery has on the environment.
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