AIRPORTS AND SERVICES

Location-Based Services and Privacy in Airports

This paper reports on a study of privacy concerns related to location-based services in an airport, where users who volunteer for the service will be tracked for a limited period and within a limited area. Reactions elicited from travellers at a field trial showed 60% feeling to some or to a large degree more secure with the system in operation. To provide a background for the privacy study we ...

Location sharing services as sensors for analyzing airports' traffic

Location sharing services can be seen as “social sensors” that provide data revealing real world interactions. In this paper, we examine the case of foursquare check-ins at airports and we show that these data can be indicative of the passengers’ traffic, while their number is hundreds of times lower than the number of actual traffic observations.

Role of Freight Transportation Services and Reduction of Delayed Flights on Productivity of US Airports

Annually million tons of freight and mail are being transported through US airports. The air freight transportation services reportedly result in millions of jobs, activities and dollars which in effect stimulate economic development of regions and the nation as a whole. Beyond passengers and aircraft movements, freight volume nowadays is another major target of opportunity for an airport manag...

Airports and economic performance in China

Iris Recognition at Airports and Border-Crossings

based on iris texture analysis. IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell. 25(12), 1519–1533 (2003) 14. Ma, L., Wang, Y., Tan, T.: Iris recognition using circular symmetric filters. In: Proceedings of International Conference on Pattern Recognition, pp. 414–417 (2002) 15. Jain, A.K., Ross, A., Prabhakar, S.: An introduction to biometric recognition. IEEE Trans. Circ. Syst. Video Technol. 14(1), 4–...