Effect of Airport Safety on Drones

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Dissertation: An effect of Airport Safety on Drones or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV)
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Acknowledgement
Conducting the research study enhances me to improve my knowledge as well as analytical
ability. It gave me the chance to face challenges all the while and conquer them. It will not be
possible to conduct the research without the significant direction of my professors, companions
and every one of who have added to this advancing knowledge. I also want to thank my
supervisor __________ for helping me in my research work as well as give their full support
during the research process. I would also thank all the participants within this study for giving
their time and helping me out. From the support of people, I am inspired to work on the research
in this subject area. Finally, thank you to my family members those help me and encourage me.
Thank You.

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Abstract
A research is undertaken to provide a detailed analysis of the effect of airport safety on the
drones or unmanned aerial vehicle. Drone offers a number of benefits and has numerous
applications in the field of surveillance, emergency and for other purpose. However, the
operations of the drones at the vicinity of the airport may cause serious problems leading to
closure of the airport. The research study analyses the effective approach of assessing the main
risks that are linked with unmanned vehicles. The research study identifies the operational
process of drones and the risks that drones causes to the normal operations of the airport. The
research study is divided into a number of chapters for better understanding of the research
process. The literature review chapter is important for collection of data from the secondary
sources, while in this particular research, primary data is collected as well in form of interview.
The collected data are analysed to find answers to the identified research questions.

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Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction........................................................................................................6
1.1. Background of the study...........................................................................................6
1.2. Research Aims and Objectives.................................................................................8
1.2.1. Aims of the study...............................................................................................8
1.2.2. Objectives of the study......................................................................................8
1.3. Research Questions...................................................................................................9
1.4. Problem Statement....................................................................................................9
1.5. Rationale of the study.............................................................................................10
1.6. Structure of the Study.............................................................................................10
Chapter 2: Literature Review.............................................................................................12
2.1. Introduction.............................................................................................................12
2.2. The concept of UAV...............................................................................................12
2.2.1. Operational Process of UAV...........................................................................13
2.2.2. The use of Drones and its impact....................................................................14
2.3. Benefit/Use of Drones in Surveillance...................................................................15
2.3.1. Drones in Vicinity of Airport..........................................................................16
2.4. Issues faced due to operations of drones near airport.............................................18
2.5. Effect of Airport safety on Drones.........................................................................20
2.6. Strategies for reducing the negative effects............................................................21

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2.7. Chapter Summary...................................................................................................25
Chapter 3: Methodology and Research Activity...............................................................27
3.1. Introduction.............................................................................................................27
3.2. Research Philosophy...............................................................................................28
3.3. Research Approach.................................................................................................28
3.5. Research Design.....................................................................................................29
3.6. Data Collection Process..........................................................................................29
3.7 Data Analysis...........................................................................................................31
3.8. Sampling Method....................................................................................................31
3.8.1. Sample Size.....................................................................................................32
3.9. Ethical Consideration..............................................................................................32
3.10. Chapter Summary.................................................................................................33
Chapter 4: Data Collection, Results and Analysis.............................................................35
4.1. Introduction.............................................................................................................35
4.2. Analysis of the Primary Data..................................................................................35
4.3. Analysis of the Secondary Data..............................................................................40
4.4. Chapter Summary...................................................................................................41
Chapter 5: Discussion and Recommendations..................................................................42
5.1. Introduction.............................................................................................................42
5.2. Discussion...............................................................................................................42

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5.3. Recommendations...................................................................................................46
5.4. Chapter Summary...................................................................................................47
Chapter 6: Conclusion, Key Findings and Future Work...................................................48
6.1. Conclusion..............................................................................................................48
6.2. Linking with Objectives.........................................................................................49
6.3. Recommendations...................................................................................................52
6.4. Limitations of research...........................................................................................52
6.5 Future scope of the study.........................................................................................52
References..........................................................................................................................54

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Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1. Background of the study
An unnamed aerial Vehicle (UAV) or drone is an aircraft or a flying robot that has a
number of applications related to safety, monitoring and various other business purposes. The
technology of drone is further used by the defence industry for monitoring purposes. One
example of making use of drone for business purpose involve its use in the insurance companies,
for accessing the damage in property related to flood, flooding and other natural or man-made
disasters (Rao, Gopi and Maione 2016.). These inspections by drones help in assisting the claim
process of insurance and therefore is used by the insurance companies. The drones are software
controlled devices with very less human intervention (Zeng, Zhang and Lim 2016). Drones are
often used in situation where the use of manned flight are considered to be risky and difficult.
Therefore, it can be said that one of the most significant applications of drones include aerial
surveillance and therefore, its presence in airport surveillance is obvious as well. However, the
prospect of expanding use of unnamed aerial vehicles has resulted in increase of a number of
understandable and major concerns to the lawmakers. The issues are mainly related to safety and
security. The increasing security concerns have resulted in enforcement of laws that prohibits the
use of drones. This has been possible because of a campaign by privacy advocates that managed
to convince, 13 states for regulating the use of drones (Ding et al. 2018). In this campaign, the
threat related to pervasive surveillance by drone is further discussed. However, in some cases,
the use of drones becomes increasingly important, as monitoring by drones enforces safety and
privacy.

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One of the most widespread application of drones is its use in airports. The drones are
mainly used for enforcing effective security monitoring within airport premises. There are a
number of benefits of making use of drones in airports (Stevenson, O’Young and Rolland 2015).
These include identification of foreign objects in airport premises, integration of the runway
surveys and enforcing perimeter security. As a part of the airport security, drones are used in
foreign object detection. An aerial detection of the foreign objects is possible with the drones.
The runway integrity surveys indicate that drones can certainly be used for providing 3D map of
runaways in a very short span of time.
However, the increasing use of drones in airport security enforces certain issues related to
airport security. Through this research report, the researcher tries to analyse the effect of airport
safety on drones and in unnamed aerial vehicle. The increase in the use of drones questions the
safety needs of the airports. The research will be analysing the negative impacts of the use of
drones at airports. One such example is related to the Gatwick airport London. This airport has
been brought to standstill after a number of drones were reported flying over the airport. The use
of drones near the airport vicinity increases the risks of collision (Clarke 2014). Thus, the
increase in the number of unmanned aerial vehicle increases the challenges faced in the aviation
industry along with the air traffic control that is responsible for safe flight operations in the
controlled airspaces. It is necessary to analyse the connection between air traffic control and
unmanned aerial vehicles (Strohmeier et al. 2014). Through this research report, the challenges
caused by the operations of aerial unmanned vehicles in airports will be analysed. The report
aims in safety assessment and risk estimation of the drones operating in the vicinity of the
airport. On analysing the effect of drones on airport safety, the report will try to address the