S3 - Sub-Project B: Simulating airport procedures for enhanced safetythrough simulation of airport processes
Overview
Background & policy context:
Preventive passenger, luggage and cargo controls were reinforced steadily and remain indispensable in the future to ensure secure air traffic and the defence against terrorist attacks but also against increasingly violent passengers. However, the majority of passengers is annoyed by these controls, which represent waiting times and partially even attacks on privacy for them. Despite the time these controls consume, they also represent a cost factor that has to be paid by the tax payer or passenger. These effects will increase further because the air traffic will grow significantly in the following years. An optimization of the handling process, which still meets all the security standards, could lead to cost reductions despite the increasing passenger numbers.
Objectives:
The objective of S2 Sub-Project B was to illustrate possibilities and measures for the optimization of the handling process on airports. It was focused on how to increase security in air traffic without negative impacts on capacity and passenger comfort. In the framework of the research project, it was analysed to which extent innovative technologies and processes can be integrated into existing procedures and which impacts that would have on capacity, security and passenger comfort. As a support, a process simulation was used.
Methodology:
The project consisted of five different work packages, which were defined together with the other project partners in the beginning. At first the necessary basis was developed. After analysing existing technologies and processes, different assessment methods were analysed. Afterwards, scenarios and possibilities for application were defined, which contained innovative concepts like the integration of biometrical processes during passenger handling. The next step was the technological concept development. Here, it was focused on the integration of different simulation models. The following work package dealt with the definition of the simulation environment and its implementation, so that the previously defined scenarios concerning the different parameters could be examined. The focus was the assessment of the impact of additional or alternative security controls on capacity, delays and the overall security level. Finally, the results were transferred to the specification of a prototype, which served as a demonstrator and was supposed to prove the viability and practicality of the innovative technologies.
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