[CCoE Notice] PhD. Dissertation Defense - Nwofia

[Khator, Suresh]

"A Methodology For Designing Airports For Enhanced Security Using Simulation"


Oliver C. Nwofia
November 29, 2011, 11:00 am, Industrial Engineering Conference Room

Advisor: Christopher C. Chung PhD.


ABSTRACT


The inevitable drive for a sustainable airport security program has created several new challenges for the aviation industry in ensuring the safety and security of our national airport system. With the advent of the new security measures, today's airports have become increasingly complex and congested. Air and passenger traffic continues to increase; consequently, the need for intelligent design concepts is required. Airport terminal designers are facing up to the challenges of incorporating new security requirements in airport designs. The constant battle to find a common ground in merging the requirements of airport design standards and the new security measures has made this such an uphill task.

This dissertation is intended to address the impact of security operations on both the design of airport facilities and passenger flows, and discuss options and scenarios to integrate these factors in obtaining improved performance. This will be facilitated by utilizing an integrated simulation model to develop an analysis of the relationship between passenger flows, airport terminal facilities and their design, and security operations and planning when a security breach occurs.

With this model, planners and designers can assess the projected performance of proposed facilities during security breaches, prior to program selection or construction. Airline and airport operational planning, design and construction will be able to estimate the operational impact of new security measures and procedures to passengers during a security breach, and also provide an interference-free tactic to investigate the complex interdependencies of the airport environment while minimizing the negative impact to customer satisfaction and economic cost to the airline industry .

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