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
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• 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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• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/8615/dot_8615_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.09 MB]
• Collection(s):
  Volpe Center
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