CENTRALISED IMAGE PROCESSING: THE IMPACT ON SECURITY CHECKPOINTS

摘要

Over the last eight years, remote cabin baggage screening (RCBS) via the use of centralised image processing (CIP) has been implemented at a number of European airports. It has been shown to potentially increase detection performance, throughput, capacity and employee satisfaction. Implementing CIP at security checkpoints hence holds many potential advantages; however, there is no 'one-size-fits-all' approach. Therefore, it is critical to evaluate and plan to select the most appropriate CIP approach for each airport. In a research project funded in part by the Federal Office of Civil Aviation (FOCA) of Switzerland, the Center for Adaptive Security Research and Applications (CASRA) systematically evaluated (via a multi-method approach) the advantages and disadvantages of CIP for checkpoint security based on important insights gathered from the experiences of pioneers and early adopters.