Key Performance Indicator for Security Measurement at Airports

Abstract

Airport Management nowadays is based on scattered information. The flow of such important information as an unattended piece of luggage from security officers to airline personnel is tenacious. A collaborative airport management culture can speed up the flow provided that appropriate data are available. We introduce the notion of a Level of Security comprising of a number, which sums all security facts to make the overall security situation easily accessible, and a management structure. With the help of this notion, decisions handling security situations are not only based on intuition and experience, but also on an indicator, which mines all internal and external sources. Determining the Level of Security involves opinions and is subjective. With the help of Fuzzy Logic, such subjective arguments can be addressed in a systematic fashion.