Fuzzy Matching:
a tool in passenger differentiation
As the number of air passengers irline passenger screening in its current
increases each year and the security
guidelines become stricter, there is
A
format started after the political and terrorist
hijackings of the 1960’s and ‘70s. The
primary goal of the infant screening
checkpoint was the prevention of passengers
taking weapons on board. Nowadays, with the
an ever increasing need to screen threat of passengers bringing bombs on board concealed
as everyday items, the focus has switched to the
passengers more smartly. “Fuzzy prevention of potentially dangerous passengers from
boarding. In other words, we need to identify “intent” as
logic” can improve the screening well as prohibited items.
The current capacity of airports, especially during peak
process by helping security times, is becoming stretched with a huge burden being
placed on screening operations. This March, Mr. Minze
departments to ensure that their Beuving, the departing Commander of the Dutch Military
Police (the agency responsible in The Netherlands for
screening agents are more alert, border control) expressed his concerns with regard to the
increasing effort needed for border control. The physical
whilst also providing a framework by space needed for security checks, as well as the number of
staff required to perform such duties (currently 520
which we can screen certain people people at Amsterdam Schiphol alone) and quantity of
scanning devices deployed being at an all time maximum.
in a different fashion to others. According to Beuving, the main Dutch airport should be
investing more rapidly in technology that will help the
Martijn Moret shows how logic process become more efficient.
Worldwide we see airports, airlines and governments
combined with technology can aid in dealing with this issue in many different ways. For
example, by moving from centralized screening to gate
the task of passenger differentiation. screening; the introduction of frequent traveller
22 April 2008 Aviationsecurityinternational
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