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The Benefits of Positive Passenger Profiling on Baggage Screening Requirements.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Shaver, Russell.
Contributor:
Kennedy, Michael.
Rand Corporation, Content Provider.
Series:
Documented briefing The Benefits of positive passenger profiling on baggage screening requirements
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Airports.
Airports--Baggage handling--United States.
Airports--Security measures--United States.
Airline passenger security screening--Passenger traffic--Security measures--United States.
Airline passenger security screening.
Aeronautics, Commercial--United States.
Aeronautics, Commercial.
Local Subjects:
Airports.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (65 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Santa Monica : RAND Corporation, 2004.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
Can positive passenger profiling lower the overall costs of airport security while minimizing the inconvenience to the flying public and retaining airport security at a high level? The authors calculate the cost of scanning as many bags as possible without abandoning the benefits of profiling.
Contents:
Preliminaries; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; Motivation for Considering Positive Passenger Profiling; Basic Baggage Queuing Delay Calculus; Adaptive Concepts for Enhancing Profiling; "How Much Is Enough?" Balancing the Costs of Delay and Machine Acquisition, Installation, and Operations; Conclusions and Observations
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
ISBN:
9781598754414
1598754416
OCLC:
171567277

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