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RSS baggageBaggage Reconciliation With an ASP Approach
White Paper This paper describes a Baggage Reconciliation System (BRS) offered with an Application Service Provider (ASP) approach for use at multiple airports by multiple airlines and ground-handling agents. Unisys provides the core competencies of program... [05 Dec 2004]
Inspect Your Baggage, Your Car? How About Your E Mail?: How Should Congress Address the Privacy Issues of Terrorism in America?
White Paper You may find a tag in your luggage, after your recent airline flight, entitled "NOTIFICATION OF BAGGAGE INSPECTION," put there by an agent of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). In straightforward language in English and Spanish, the... [23 Feb 2005]
What happened to RFID's baggage-tracking boom?
News Despite a number of trials and pilots worldwide, the use of RFID to track baggage for airlines has not taken off in the way many industry pundits expected. Lost baggage currently costs the travel industry more than $1bn per year and, with... [06 Oct 2006]
Wireless System Helps Maximize Efficiency for Automated Airport Baggage Handling System
White Paper The Baggage Handling System (BHS) at Leonardo da Vinci airport has proven to be reliable and efficient. Manual intervention by baggage attendants and flight crew was necessary for maximum efficiency. It needed a system of manually checking baggage... [01 Oct 2006]
How Much Is Enough? Sizing the Deployment of Baggage Screening Equipment to Minimize the Cost of Flying
White Paper 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. [14 Feb 2005]
Manchester Airport uses BI to back baggage rule change
News Manchester Airport is using business intelligence (BI) software to help manage passenger flows through security after becoming one of the first UK airports to once again allow people to take more than one item of hand baggage on flights. [07 Jan 2008]
How Much Is Enough? Sizing the Deployment of Baggage Screening Equipment by Considering the Economic Cost of Passenger Delays
White Paper Shortly after the terrorist attacks against the World Trade Center 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. [14 Feb 2005]
Texas Instruments Case Study: Airline Baggage Identification
White Paper With Tag-it, smart labels the airlines now have highly reliable, economical baggage identification and tracking solution for positive passenger-to-baggage verification and reconciliation. The trials clearly demonstrated the effectiveness of the... [02 Aug 2007]
Why did tech ground Heathrow baggage?
News Although normal service was resumed for passengers on Thursday, the BAA spokesman said continuing problems meant some baggage was still having to be directed manually at T4 behind the scenes. A BA spokesman said: "We were not able to accept hold... [21 Feb 2008]
Challenges Exist in Stabilizing and Enhancing Passenger and Baggage Screening Operations
White Paper with hundreds of airports and thousands of flights daily carrying millions of passengers and pieces of baggage. In an effort to strengthen the security of commercial aviation, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was created and charged... [21 Dec 2004]
Heathrow Terminal 5 suffers first day baggage chaos
News On opening day of Heathrow's £4.3bn Terminal 5 (T5), passengers have been hit by delays and flight cancellations as a result of problems with the new high-tech baggage system. On Thursday evening the problems with the baggage system led to all... [27 Mar 2008]
The Benefits of Positive Passenger Profiling on Baggage Screening Requirements
White Paper These two criteria - keeping the cost to the government of acquiring, installing, and operating the baggage scanning equipment as low as possible and not seriously disrupting the passenger flow through the airport - are in conflict because... [12 Dec 2004]
Successful Implementation of an RFID-Enabled Baggage Tracking and Control System Using BEA WebLogic Server
White Paper Korean air carrier Asiana Airlines and its IT integrator, sister company Asiana IDT, wished to evaluate using Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) technology for Asiana Airlines' baggage handling in a demonstration project. [21 Sep 2006]
Caption Competition: Babbage baggage!
Photo This competition is now closed. The winning caption, from reader Paul Harding was "You think the computer's big? Wait 'til you see the monitor! Photo credit: Daniel Terdiman/CNET News.com [02 May 2008]
IDTechEx Case Study: Las Vegas McCarran International Airport, Baggage, USA
White Paper McCarran International Airport in Nevada, USA brokered a five-year contract with Matrics to supply RFID tags for use in tracking passenger luggage, as part of the airport's commitment to improving customer safety and satisfaction. [10 Apr 2008]
