Protecting Airline Passengers in the Age of Terrorism

333 Pages·2009·2.6 MB·English

by  Paul Seidenstat

Protecting Airline Passengers
in the Age of Terrorism
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Protecting Airline
Passengers in the Age
of Terrorism
Edited by Paul Seidenstat
and Francis X. Splane
PRAEGER SECURITY INTERNATIONAL
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Copyright 2009 by Paul Seidenstat and Francis X. Splane
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Protecting airline passengers in the age of terrorism / edited by Paul Seidenstat
and Francis X. Splane.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-313-35453-3 ( hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-313-35454-0 (ebook)
1. Aeronautics, Commercial — Security measures —United States. 2. Aeronautics,
Commercial—Passenger traffi c. 3. Airports — Security measures —United States.
4. Terrorism—Prevention. I. Seidenstat, Paul. II. Splane, Francis X.
HE9797.4.S4.P76 2009
363.325'9387742— dc22 2009016438
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Contents
Part I Introduction 1
Chapter 1 Protecting Airline Passengers: An Overview 3
Paul Seidenstat
Part II Prior to Boarding 13
Chapter 2 Insecure Flight: Broken Boarding Passes
and Ineffective Terrorist Watch Lists 15
Christopher Soghoian
Chapter 3 Aviation Security: At Risk from Practical Drift? 33
Simon Bennett
Chapter 4 Screening on the Ground, Security in the Sky 63
Kwang Eui Yoo
Chapter 5 Behavior and Security 86
Mark G. Frank, Carl J. Maccario, and Venugopal Govindaraju
Chapter 6 Rethinking Aviation Security Screening 107
Mark B. Salter
Part III In-Flight 121
Chapter 7 Preparing for In-Flight Security Threats 123
Lori J. Brown
Chapter 8 Federal Air Marshals: The Last Line of Defense 149
Paul Seidenstat
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Part IV Systems Analysis and Innovation 161
Chapter 9 ARMOR Software: A Game-Theoretic Approach
to Airport Security 163
James Pita, Manish Jain, Fernando Ordóñez, Christopher
Portway, Milind Tambe, Craig Western, Praveen Paruchuri,
and Sarit Kraus
Chapter 10 A irport Security System Design: Passenger
Flow Analysis and Simulation Modeling 184
Jomon Aliyas Paul, Li Lin, Rajan Batta, and Colin Drury
Part V Policy Issues 207
Chapter 11 Improving Security for Fliers 209
Thomas L. Jensen
Chapter 12 Modeling Airport Security Regulations 228
Yves Ledru
Chapter 13 Current Issues in Aviation Security 247
Narayanan Srinivasan and Shreemen Prabhakaran
Chapter 14 Airport Security: Time for a New Model 259
Robert W. Poole, Jr.
Appendix Technical Application: Command and Control via Futuristic
Positioning Systems 287
Seyed A. (Reza) Zekavat and Hui Tong
Index 315
About the Editors and Contributors 319
P I
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Introduction
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C 1
HAPTER
Protecting Airline
Passengers: An Overview
Paul Seidenstat
Since September 11, 2001, when several hijacked airplanes were crashed
into large buildings in the United States, the nation’s security leadership has
stressed the importance of transportation security, with special emphasis on
airport security. Airport security had been of great concern in the United
States for several decades, prompted by sporadic hijackings and bomb explo-
sions. Although it had been a joint public-private undertaking, emphasis
shifted to public operations after the 9/11 attacks, based on the perceived
weaknesses of the security system.
Protecting airline passengers is a challenging problem. At any one time,
there are about 5,000 commercial airliners in the sky. Every day, there are
28,000 fl ights, and monthly, 850,000. Hundreds of millions of passengers will
pass through airline security in 2009.
Those passengers will fl ow into the security system at 561 airports around
the country. Many of those airports—about 400 of them—are large orga-
nizations, employing thousands of skilled and unskilled workers who pass,
unscreened, in and out of employee entrances as they provide routine and
ongoing access to hundreds of catering and service vehicles, through miles of
restricted airport perimeters.
The security strategy we use to protect this very large system was designed
40 years ago to deter unsophisticated hijackers. The major threat we face
today is from well-trained terrorists backed by careful preparation and well-
fi nanced groups.