World first drone check on shire roads

By Sally Cripps
Updated August 21 2015 - 2:22pm, first published June 26 2015 - 4:00am
The drone used in ground-breaking road asset surveys in western Queensland.
The drone used in ground-breaking road asset surveys in western Queensland.

RURAL shires with many thousands of kilometres of roads in their networks are excited about the potential cost-savings offered by a recent trial of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology that remotely surveyed more than 600km of roads.

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