National Highways

Coordinating Drone Operations Across the Strategic Road Network

Like Network Rail, National Highways manage thousands of miles of linear infrastructure that require around-the-clock oversight.

Different to Network Rail, National Highways don’t operate internal teams of drone pilots. Instead, Tier One construction companies that manage large highways projects — including Kier and Balfour Beatty — operate their own drone teams and deploy drones widely across the highways network.

Dronecloud provides National Highways with a single, map-based view of every drone operation across the network, and a contractor workflow that accelerates approvals from weeks to almost instant.

Single Platform, Integrated GG104 Workflow, Connected Contractor Networks

National Highways now make full use of the Dronecloud platform to gain a complete, map-based view of every drone operation happening over the highways network.

Dronecloud and National Highways worked closely to understand the existing GG104 risk assessment process and incorporated much of it directly into the Dronecloud workflow. Approvals and flight notifications are now almost instant.

Sub-contracted organisations working for National Highways use the Networks feature: National Highways invite organisations to be linked to the NH account and follow a customised workflow. When a linked organisation wants to fly for highways, the workflow makes the process quick and surfaces the project-specific information the NH drones team needs.

In addition to the network-linked contractor flow, Dronecloud also gives the public a free way to publish flight notifications when they want to fly near the network.

National Highways can now control every drone operation and the planning workflow behind it through a single platform.