Assessment of Technologies Deployed to Improve Aviation Security

Assessment of Technologies Deployed to Improve Aviation Security

First Report

  • Publisher: National Academies Press
  • ISBN: 9780309067874
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780309514026
  • eISBN Epub: 9780309172431
  • Place of publication:  United States
  • Year of digital publication: 1999
  • Month: November
  • Pages: 90
  • DDC: 388
  • Language: English

This report assesses the operational performance of explosives-detection equipment and hardened unit-loading devices (HULDs) in airports and compares their operational performance to their laboratory performance, with a focus on improving aviation security.

  • Front Matter
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Tables, Figures, and Boxes
  • Acronyms and Abbreviations
  • Executive Summary
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Grand Architecture
  • 3 Roles and Responsibilities
  • 4 Baggage Handling
  • 5 Blast-Resistant Containers
  • 6 Bulk Explosives Detection
  • 7 Trace Explosives Detection
  • 8 Computer-Assisted Passenger Screening and Positive Passenger-Bag Matching
  • 9 Human Factors
  • 10 Evaluation of Architectures
  • 11 Response to Congress
  • References
  • Biographical Sketches of Panel Members

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