Drones in Logistics: A Feasible Future or a Waste of Effort

Author(s)

Andrew LotzFollow

Abstract

On December 1^st, 2013 news around the world was filled with headlines about E- Commerce website Amazon.com. CEO of Amazon Jeff Bezos announced to the world that Amazon was designing a drone delivery program called Amazon Air that could deliver packages to customers in just 30 minutes. Consumers were all too excited for the program to launch while many business and air traffic savvy people were highly skeptical. Now two years later research to look back at the feasibility of drone flight and whether investment into the technology is worth it for small deliveries straight to customers is needed to track the progress of drone technology

Department

Technology

Major

Business, General/Individualized

First Advisor

Karen Eboch

First Advisor Department

Management

Second Advisor

Royce Martin

Second Advisor Department

Technology

Publication Date

Fall 12-14-2015

Repository Citation

Lotz, Andrew, "Drones in Logistics: A Feasible Future or a Waste of Effort" (2015). Honors Projects. 204.
https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/honorsprojects/204