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Creators:
Pollard, John K.
Corporate Creators:
John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.) ; United States. Federal Aviation Administration ; William J. Hughes Technical Center (U.S.)
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Subject/TRT Terms:
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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.)
NTL Classification:
NTL-SAFETY AND SECURITY-SAFETY AND SECURITY;NTL-SAFETY AND SECURITY-Human Factors;
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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