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Aviation security is a risk-based industry that must constantly juggle the pressures of being accurate (finding all threats) and being efficient (getting passengers through checkpoints at a reasonable speed for on-time departures). The current solutions to this juggling problem—being accurate and fast—rest almost entirely on having a reliable, well-trained workforce combined with constant oversight and […]
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Aviation security officers scan X-ray images of passengers’ property looking for prohibited items. They search for knifes, guns, bombs, and more. Threatening items can definitely come through a security checkpoint, and even very strange things might come through, however, only a small number of bags actually contain a real threat. Nearly all passengers are simply trying […]
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Aviation security personnel at airports around the world are often referred to as “screeners”—as they screen the traveling public and their belongings. However, this label is misleading since these employees do so much more. They are often tasked with screening X-ray images of carry-on luggage, monitoring walk-through metal detectors and/or body scanners, checking photo-IDs and boarding […]
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Visual search is one of the most common—and complicated—cognitive abilities that people use. And it is the most critical skill needed to keep the traveling public safe in airports around the world. At the simplest level, visual search is just looking for something among a set of other things. We do this all the time in […]
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