Reading, Cambridge and Rugby are among the places set to be connected by drones.
The UK is set to become home to the world's largest automated drone superhighway within the next two years.
He will say the funding will "help the sector seize on the enormous opportunities for growth that exist as the world transitions to cleaner forms of flight".Dave Pankhurst, director of drones at BT, told the BBC that Skyway is about scaling up trials that have been taking place around the UK."This drone capability has existed for quite some time, but is in its infancy in terms of being actually part of our society and being a usable application," he said.
A total of £105.5m of the government's funding will be specifically for projects relating to "integrated aviation systems and new vehicle technologies", including unmanned aerial vehicles such as drones. "Whether it be a business doing logistics, all the way to the police and medical deliveries of vaccines and blood samples, there's a real demand to have access to this airspace," he said.
Steve Wright, associate professor in aerospace engineering at UWE Bristol, said the biggest concern regarding crashes does not come when the drone is in the air, but during take-off or landing. He said its research showed that people are more likely to accept a drone if they know it is providing an important service.
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