Simulation´s role in baggage screening at the airports: a case study

Author

Hafizogullari, Suna ; Bender, Gloria ; Tunasar, Cenk

Author_Institution

TransSolutions, Fort Worth,TX, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

7-10 Dec. 2003

Firstpage

1833

Abstract

The Aviation and Transportation Security Act passed by Congress in November, 2001 (USA) required the nation\´s airports to perform 100% checked baggage screening by December 31, 2002. To determine the impact of this requirement on its operations, Lambert St. Louis International Airport (STL) requested TransSolutions to evaluate the equipment and facility requirements to meet 100% checked baggage screening for all airlines serving STL. Discrete event simulation models were developed to evaluate passenger service levels for each alternative option considered, relative to the airport performance metric that 95% of all passengers in the peak hour would wait no longer than additional 10 minutes for baggage screening. Various protocols with different machine requirements were tested, and the "drop-and-go" option was chosen as the most viable alternative. We discuss how simulation is used to help the airport\´s decision making process.

Keywords

airports; decision making; demand forecasting; discrete event simulation; resource allocation; security; travel industry; Aviation and Transportation Security Act; airport performance metric; baggage screening; decision making process; discrete event simulation; drop-and-go option; Air transportation; Airports; Computed tomography; Computer aided software engineering; Counting circuits; Explosives; Humans; Military computing; Security; X-ray imaging;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Simulation Conference, 2003. Proceedings of the 2003 Winter

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8131-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WSC.2003.1261640

Filename

1261640