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How Much Is Enough? Sizing the Deployment of Baggage Screening Equipment to Minimize the Cost of Flying

Overview This research addresses airport security needs over the longer term?namely, how best to balance in the future the two principal criteria that are commonly put forward for sizing the machine deployments at individual airports. Shortly after the terrorist attacks against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, Congress passed a new law that mandated the screening of all baggage carried on all commercial aircraft by the end of calendar year (CY) 2002. The Transportation Security Agency (TSA), a newly formed organization that is part of the Department of Homeland Security, was given the responsibility for assuring the rapid implementation of this mandate.

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Publisher	RAND	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	September 2004	Downloads	24
Format	White Papers
Topics	Transportation Security, Physical Infrastructure Protection

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