Formation of Transportation Security Agency After 9/11, Transportation Security Agency had been created in order to improve aviation and airport security in order to deal with terrorist attacks. TSA works collaboratively with local and regional agencies in order to promote security in the transportation sector including railroads, buses, subways, ports and highways (DiLascio 123)
New Policies and Framework The issue of airport and aviation security has significant attention since the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, which completely destroyed the World Trade Center and killed hundreds of innocent people. The tragic event raised security concern and changed the face of aviation security in the twenty first century (Nicholson 14)
The former operates on X-rah backscatter technology and the latter employs wave imaging technology. Critics assert that this technology invades privacy and refer it as "virtual strip search" (Seidenstat 276)
In order to address the privacy concerns, the TSA should install new software on the AIT machines. These will auto-detect all items that could pose a threat by implementing a generic framework of an individual for all the air passengers (O'Hanlon, 2011)
Airport Security Improvements Security Improvement #1: Developing newer, more effective and innovative airport security cameras The justification for this development is to ensure that passengers or travelers at the airport do not have to constantly take off their belts, coats, shoes and placing them in the conveyor bins. This is a process that brings about long queues in the airport security checkpoints all over (Marsh, 2014)
Positive Attributes The positive attribute of this security improvement is that it enhances the hospitality rendered in the airport. In turn, this increases the possibility of passengers returning to use the airport yet again and comfortably using such airlines (Moskvitch, 2015)
To start with, the system will be able to detect and distinguish any kind of explosives or bombs that might endanger the safety of the individuals within the airport. In general, this improvement will contribute to the control of terrorism acts and also hasten the checking of baggage and possessions of passengers (Subramanian, 2015)
As Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek have demonstrated, transportation systems can be hacked and vehicles hijacked using computers, such as the kind Miller and Valsek used to remotely hijack a Jeep Cherokee that was being driven ten miles away (Greenberg, 2015). There are hypotheses that the airplanes that were used on 9/11 were remotely hijacked in order to ensure that the planes hit precisely in the destinations that they were intended to hit (Corbett, 2011)
S. government has already seen its systems hacked in 2015 and the social security numbers of more than 20 million people stolen (Davis, 2015)
As recent as in April of this year security at the airport was suddenly beefed up following reports of possible threats of sabotage by ISIS terrorists. Therefore as a strategic target, LAX is very lucrative for the terrorists and hence security arrangements at the airport are given priority (Bleier, 2015)
The documents that detail the proposed security measures at the airports and aviation security are deemed to be security sensitive and thus limit public discourse of the same. The security at the airports and aviation is however known to have been prepared using a risk-based methodology to complement the overarching National Infrastructure Protection Plan (Dhs.gov, 2015)
This act has changed the way security measures are taken at the airport as well as during flights in the aviation industry in the U.S. (Elias, 2009)
3 million in 2000. LAX was identified to be "the world's busiest origin and destination (O & D) airport" in 2011, meaning it had the most non-connecting passengers (Lawa.org, 2015)
The hand baggage and other luggage go through scanning machines to identify any suspicious items. All checked luggage is screened at the airport by explosive detection equipment (Los-angeles-lax.worldairportguides.com, 2015)
S., there are layers of security and security checks while entering the airport (Transportation Security Administration, 2014)
S., there are layers of security and security checks while entering the airport (Transportation Security Administration, 2014)
Primary and secondary passenger screening is done by Advance Imaging Technology (AIT) at the airports. This was put into effect after the attempted bombing of Northwest Airlines Flight 253 in 2010 and is viewed as an effective screening process of personnel and baggage (www.ustravel.org, 2011)