Abstract
The events of September 11th, 2001 launched the world into a new era of aviation security policy, operations, and procedures. The very nature of aviation security makes such operations ill-equipped to rapidly respond to highly agile groups of people intent on inflicting harm to the air transportation system. This article provides an overview of aviation security issues, with a particular focus on what can be done to address the uncertainty inherent within such systems, and where flexibility in security operations and procedures can be used to mitigate such risks.
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The authors wish to thank Arnold Barnett (MIT) for his thoughtful comments and feedback on an earlier version of this manuscript. The first author’s research on aviation security has been supported in part by the National Science Foundation (DMI-0114499) and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (FA9550-07-1-0232). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the United States Government, the National Science Foundation, or the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.
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Jacobson, S.H., Lee, A.J. & Nikolaev, A.G. Designing for flexibility in aviation security systems. J Transp Secur 2, 1–8 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12198-009-0022-7
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