Airport Viz - a 3D Tool to Enhance Security Operations

Conference · Sun Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 2006

OSTI ID:931599

Koch, Daniel B ^[1]

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1. ORNL

In the summer of 2000, the National Safe Skies Alliance (NSSA) awarded a project to the Applied Visualization Center (AVC) at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK) to develop a 3D computer tool to assist the Federal Aviation Administration security group, now the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), in evaluating new equipment and procedures to improve airport checkpoint security. A preliminary tool was demonstrated at the 2001 International Aviation Security Technology Symposium. Since then, the AVC went on to construct numerous detection equipment models as well as models of several airports. Airport Viz has been distributed by the NSSA to a number of airports around the country which are able to incorporate their own CAD models into the software due to its unique open architecture. It provides a checkpoint design and passenger flow simulation function, a layout design and simulation tool for checked baggage and cargo screening, and a means to assist in the vulnerability assessment of airport access points for pedestrians and vehicles.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-00OR22725
• OSTI ID: 931599
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

3D Visualization
99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS
AIRPORTS
ARCHITECTURE
Airport Security
CARGO
COMPUTERS
DESIGN
DETECTION
OCCUPANTS
SECURITY
SIMULATION
Simulation
TENNESSEE
US FAA
VULNERABILITY