Evaluation of a bar-code system to detect unaccompanied baggage

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• Creators:
  Pollard, John K.
• Corporate Creators:
  John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.) ; United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Aviation Administration ; William J. Hughes Technical Center (U.S.)
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Aviation Safety Baggage Handling Baggage Screening Security Checkpoints
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Edition:
  Final report
• Corporate Publisher:
  John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.)
• Abstract:
  The objective of the Unaccompanied Baggage Detection System (UBDS) Project has
  
  been to gain field experience with a system designed to identify passengers who
  
  check baggage for a flight and subsequently fail to board that flight. In the first
  
  phase of the project, various identification techniques including bar-code, magnetic
  
  stripe, optical character readers, and micro-wave transponders, were reviewed.
  
  Bar-code was selected because of its low cost and because of the off-the-shelf
  
  availability of all of the necessary components for a system.
  
  During a March, 1986 meeting of airline security officials, the representative of
  
  United Airlines volunteered his carrier to host a UBDS demonstration. UAL's station
  
  at Green Airport near Providence, R.I. was selected because of its proximity to TSC
  
  and its scale of operations which allows collection of a substantial volume of data
  
  while incurring costs for only a single gate.
  
  Although it was recognized at the start that integration of the UBDS with UAL's
  
  Apollo reservations system would provide the most realistic operating environment,
  
  the lead-time for such integration was estimated at more than one year, which
  
  excluded it from further consideration. Instead a stand-alone system was designed
  
  consisting of miniature terminals placed at each ticket counter position linked to
  
  bar-code label printers through a micro-computer and concentrator. As each
  
  passenger with bags to check appeared at the counter, the agent was supposed to
  
  enter the passenger's last name and initial along with the number of bags. This
  
  action created a computer record of the passenger together with a sequence number.
  
  The latter plus a code for the flight number was automatically printed on bar-code
  
  labels, one to be scanned as the passenger boarded the aircraft and the olher(s) for
  
  the baggage tags in case it was desired to identify and remove a bag.
  
  
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