Commercial Aviation Security: Integrating People and Equipment to Improve Threat Detection
- List Price: $36.95
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: National Academy Press
- Publish date: 05/01/1999
Commercial Aviation Security examines technologies for detecting explosives and weapons and offers recommendations to assist decisionmakers as they tackle the critical problem of preventing terrorist attacks against commercial aviation. It includes details on:
-- Security technologies, including methods for detecting bulk and sheet explosives, chemical vapor screening for detecting trace explosives, and magnetic portals for weapons detection.
-- Selecting, training, testing, maintaining, and reviewing the performance of security screening personnel and, most important, integrating human operators into total security systems.
-- Issues in equipment deployment at airports, including the balance between encouraging technology innovation and ensuring the peak performance of deployed equipment.
