Designing airport checked-baggage-screening strategies considering system capability and reliability

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 618-627

  Feng, Qianmei ^a   Sahin, Hande ^a   Kapur, Kailash C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Airport baggage screening; Risk analysis; Switching probability; System capability and reliability; Threshold values

Indexed keywords

AIRPORTS; COSTS; LIFE CYCLE; OPERATING COSTS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY FACTOR; TECHNOLOGY;

AIRPORT SECURITIES; BAGGAGE SCREENINGS; CRITICAL COMPONENTS; DECISION RULES; EFFICIENT; HUMAN RELIABILITIES; IMAGE-BASED; LIFE-CYCLE COSTS; MATHEMATICAL FRAMEWORKS; NEW TECHNOLOGIES; NUMERICAL EXAMPLES; OPTIMAL COMBINATIONS; OPTIMIZATION APPROACHES; OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES; PAPER ADDRESSES; SCREENING SYSTEMS; SCREENING TECHNOLOGIES; SWITCHING PROBABILITY; SYSTEM CAPABILITIES; SYSTEM CAPABILITY AND RELIABILITY; THRESHOLD VALUES;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 54049142021     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2008.06.015     Document Type: Article

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