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CPMA 2024 Annual Conference & Expo

A Bird's Eye View - Traffic Monitoring by Drone

Wednesday, September 25, 9:30 AM, Room: Lakeview

UNC Charlotte Parking and Transportation Services has two FAA Part 107 Remote Pilots. These pilots fly university owned drones over and around the campus to monitor campus and city streets to manage large event traffic. The camera feeds are live streamed to Parking Services, Police and Public Safety and Safety and Security management. Drone operations are conducted both night and day and are flown for many consecutive hours. Parking and Police event commanders can direct field personnel to shift traffic patterns based on situational awareness captured by cameras 400 feet above the ground.

Learning Objectives

  • Learn how to read the airspace above your campus

  • You can fly in restricted airspace. We'll show you how.

  • Choosing the correct aircraft for your use case and be responsible to your budget.

  • Risk Management behind every decision. Plan for the worse...

Mark Lariviere (UNC-Charlotte)

Mark Lariviere has been an employee of UNC Charlotte Parking and Transportation Services for 27 years. He has served in multiple customer facing positions until his career was focused on the technical elements of the operation. He is now the IT lead with two talented staff who find creative ways to solve problems or make an existing process easier to manage. Lariviere holds an FAA Part 107 Remote Pilot Certificate and trains Civil Air Patrol cadets to obtain their credentials to become mission pilots for Search and Rescue and other Civil Air Patrol missions. Lariviere has also trained Facilities Management pilots and works with Safety & Security to make the UNC Charlotte airspace safer.

Rick Boucher Jr. (UNC-Charlotte)

Rick Boucher began his career with UNC Charlotte Parking and Transportation Services (PaTS) as a communication center representative in December of 2017. He served in this role for 5 years, utilizing his extensive background in customer service to provide exceptional service to University Faculty/Staff, Students, and visitors with all their campus parking related needs. Boucher went on to assume the role of Parking Operations Manager in October of 2022 and continues to serve the University in this role. He is a self-taught FAA Part 107 commercial drone operator and received his certification in July of 2017. Joining the PaTS team already having this certification enabled the UNC Charlotte PaTS department to get an early start piloting a Special Events Drone Operations program which has now grown to include three (3) department owned aircrafts.

This conference offers up to 7 CAPP Points towards application and the maximum in Program Type 2 for recertification.