Airline Passenger Security Screening

Airline Passenger Security Screening
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 88
Release: 1996-06-19
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 0309175852

This book addresses new technologies being considered by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for screening airport passengers for concealed weapons and explosives. The FAA is supporting the development of promising new technologies that can reveal the presence not only of metal-based weapons as with current screening technologies, but also detect plastic explosives and other non-metallic threat materials and objects, and is concerned that these new technologies may not be appropriate for use in airports for other than technical reasons. This book presents discussion of the health, legal, and public acceptance issues that are likely to be raised regarding implementation of improvements in the current electromagnetic screening technologies, implementation of screening systems that detect traces of explosive materials on passengers, and implementation of systems that generate images of passengers beneath their clothes for analysis by human screeners.

Assessment of Technologies Deployed to Improve Aviation Security

Assessment of Technologies Deployed to Improve Aviation Security
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 89
Release: 1999-11-23
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0309172438

This report assesses the operational performance of explosives-detection equipment and hardened unit-loading devices (HULDs) in airports and compares their operational performance to their laboratory performance, with a focus on improving aviation security.

Guidebook for Air Cargo Facility Planning and Development

Guidebook for Air Cargo Facility Planning and Development
Author: Mike Maynard
Publisher:
Total Pages: 126
Release: 2015
Genre: Aeronautics, Commercial
ISBN:

The guidebook presents a broad discussion of the various issues that must be addressed in planning air cargo facilities. It describes tools and techniques for sizing facilities, including data and updated metrics necessary to forecast future facility requirements as a function of changing market and economic conditions. The procedures offered support airport operators in crafting effective business plans and development decisions that meet the industry's current and future technological, operational, and security challenges in a cost-effective, efficient, and environmentally sensitive manner.

Future Flight

Future Flight
Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board. Committee for a Study of Public-Sector Requirements for a Small Aircraft Transportation System
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2002
Genre: Aeronautics, Commercial
ISBN: 0309072484

Airport Research Needs

Airport Research Needs
Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board. Committee for a Study of an Airport Cooperative Research Program
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2003
Genre: Airports
ISBN: 0309077494

Urges the US Congress to establish a national airport cooperative research program. The committee that produced the report called such a program essential to ensuring airport security, efficiency, safety, and environmental compatibility.

Development of Regional Airports

Development of Regional Airports
Author: M. N. Postorino
Publisher: WIT Press
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2010
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1845641434

This book gives an overview of the main aspects of the potential development of regional airports particularly the economic aspects, the role of low-cost companies, demand modelling, the airport, airline and access mode choices, and the relationships between capacity constraints on hubs and the growth of regional airports.

Taking Flight

Taking Flight
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 188
Release: 1997-03-14
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0309056764

The commercial aviation industry is a major part of the U.S. transportation infrastructure and a key contributor to the nation's economy. The industry is facing the effects of a reduced role by the military as a source of high-quality trained personnel, particularly pilots and mechanics. At the same time, it is facing the challenges of a changing American workforce. This book is a study of the civilian training and education programs needed to satisfy the work-force requirements of the commercial aviation industry in the year 2000 and beyond, with particular emphasis on issues related to access to aviation careers by women and minorities.