Efficient Aviation Security Strengthening the Analytic Foundation for Making Air Transportation Security Decisions

• Main Author: Jackson, Brian A. (auth)
• Other Authors: LaTourrette, Tom (auth), Chan, Edward W. (auth), Lundberg, Russell (auth), Morral, Andrew R. (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: RAND Corporation 2012
• Subjects: Transport industries; Database design & theory; History of the Americas; Terrorism, armed struggle; Aircraft: general interest; Transportation Studies; Political Science; Technology; History
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Making aviation security more cost-effective is hampered by considerable uncertainty about the terrorist threat, security system performance, and the costs of security measures. This volume focuses on exploring ways to inform decisionmaking despite such uncertainties, providing a set of analyses tha...