Identifying Changing Aviation Threat Environments Within an Adaptive Homeland Security Advisory System

Identifying Changing Aviation Threat Environments Within an Adaptive Homeland Security Advisory System

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Article ID: iaor2012747
Volume: 32
Issue: 2
Start Page Number: 319
End Page Number: 329
Publication Date: Feb 2012
Journal: Risk Analysis
Authors: ,
Keywords: transportation: air, risk
Abstract:

A critical component of aviation security consists of screening passengers and baggage to protect airports and aircraft from terrorist threats. Advancements in screening device technology have increased the ability to detect these threats; however, specifying the operational configurations of these devices in response to changes in the threat environment can become difficult. This article proposes to use Fisher information as a statistical measure for detecting changes in the threat environment. The perceived risk of passengers, according to prescreening information and behavior analysis, is analyzed as the passengers sequentially enter the security checkpoint. The alarm responses from the devices used to detect threats are also analyzed to monitor significant changes in the frequency of threat items uncovered. The key results are that this information-based measure can be used within the Homeland Security Advisory System to indicate changes in threat conditions in real time, and provide the flexibility of security screening detection devices to responsively and automatically adapt operational configurations to these changing threat conditions.

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