How Much Is Enough ?: Sizing the Deployment of Baggage Screening Equipment by Considering the Economic Cost of Passenger Delays

In The Wake Of September 11, 2001, The Transportation Security Agency Was Given The Responsibility For Ensuring That All Baggage Flying On U.s. Commercial Aircraft Would Be Screened. Left Undefined Was How Much Baggage-scanning Equipment Should Be Deployed At Each Airport, Given The Objective Of Scanning All Arriving Baggage Thoroughly While Not Unnecessarily Inconveniencing The Flying Public. This Documented Briefing Builds On An Earlier Rand White Paper, Safer Skies, Answering The Question, How Much Is Enough? By Minimizing The Total Direct And Inferred Costs To The Flying Public For Different Electronic Detection System Deployment Sizes. The Authors Also Offer A Discussion Of The Pros And Cons Of Positive Passenger Profiling And How The Introduction Of Profiling Might Reduce These Costs. Russell Shaver ... [et Al.] September 2004. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 117-118). Also Available Via The Internet. Preliminaries......Page 1 PREFACE......Page 4 1. Background, Introduction, and Findings......Page 6 2. Calculating Maximum and Average Baggage-Scanning Delays at a Major Airport (Dallas-Fort Worth)......Page 13 3. Implications for Passenger Delays......Page 28 4. Sensitivity of Results to Assumptions......Page 36 5. Extending Analysis to Include a Second Major Airport......Page 39 6. Balancing Costs and Consequences......Page 51 7. Profiling as a Means to Reduce Costs and/or Lessen Consequences......Page 68 8. Observations and Recommendations......Page 76 APPENDICES......Page 84