Real-time Probabilistic Passenger Arrival Forecasting

Through several contractions, stiff competition, and increasing passenger expectations, airports must evolve continually. One of the main avenues for this has been improving the efficiency of the security check- points, which are airports’ primary bottlenecks. Operational optimisation methods, such as resource and task scheduling are relatively...

Multi-criteria decision making for improvement of security and efficiency at airport security checkpoints using agent-based models

Agent-based modelling and simulation has shown to be a suitable paradigm for analyzing complex airport systems, such as airport security checkpoints. The models can be used to analyze important airport terminal performance areas, such as security and efficiency. However, limited knowledge exists on how agent-based models can be used to aid...

An empirical game-theoretic approach to airport security using agent-based modelling and simulation

Airports are attractive targets for terrorism, as they are designed to accommodate and process large amounts of people, resulting in high concentration of potential victims. A popular method to mitigate the risk of these attacks is through security patrols, but resources are often limited. Game-theory is often used as a methodology to find...

Quantifying Vulnerabilities in an Airport Checkpoint: A study on the role of employee behavior in the emergence of vulnerabilities

Ever since the attacks on the World Trade Center, airport security has been a topic of interest. The United States was caught by surprise and the attacks triggered a renewed interest in aviation security. It was well recognized that airport security was one step behind on intelligent attackers and this created the need to developed better risk...

Towards Formalization and Operationalization of Resilience: A study on anticipation in the context of airport security operations

Resilience can be understood as the intrinsic ability of a system to adapt its functioning prior to, during, or following changes and disturbances, so that it can sustain required operations and performance under both expected and unexpected conditions. The need to explore the concept of resilience, in the context of socio-technical systems, is...

Modelling and analysis of dynamic relations and trade-offs between security and efficiency in airport security operations

The two performance areas “security” and “efficiency” in airport security operations cannot be analyzed apart from each other, since influencing one has a large impact on the other. In this research agent-based modelling is used to analyze dynamic relations and trade-offs between security and efficiency within airport security operations....

Trade-off Analysis between Security and Efficiency of Airport Operations: A methodological underpinned modelling approach to identify, analyse and evaluate trade-offs based on empirical choice observations

This Master Thesis document presents a research on trade-off analysis between security and efficiency factors during airport operations. Over the past few decades there has been an increase in security in the air transportation industry, with even more measures taken since 9/11. Besides affecting the operational costs of airports, the stricter...

Agent-based security risk assessment of the airport security system

The thought of being secure has been on the minds of people throughout history. Security is the protection against intended incidents. Intended incidents happen due to a result of a deliberate and planned act. Security systems are implemented in order to set up security precautions which have as main goal the protection of all assets present...

A revision of the Security Scanner: Restoring the balance between passenger, agent and Scanner

Using Schiphol’s Security Scanner is confusing for a lot of passengers. Therefore, security agents currently have to fully take on the task of guiding the passenger through the Scanner. This repetitive task in the high volume environment of Schiphol security leads to physical and mental exhaustion and results in frustration, which is projected...

Evaluating the security related decision behaviour of employees in an airport security system. Case Study: Soekarno – Hatta International Airport, Jakarta

This project aims to analyze any factor which influence the security related decision behaviour of the employees at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport security system and analyze the differences between employee categories.