Items Tagged with 'passenger screening'

In 2023, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) made a number of security improvements to improve passenger and employee safety.

Philadelphia is adding gun detection to its public transportation security measures to protect buses, subways and other forms of mass transit.

Three-quarters of air passengers say they would prefer using biometric data instead of passports and boarding passes while traveling.

Security sits down with Lisa Sullivan, Senior Vice President of Travel and Transport at IDEMIA, to discuss how to preserve personally identifiable information (PII) of passengers at checkpoints.

Madrid-based Iberia airlines is trialing biometric facial recognition at its home airport for contactless flying.

U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley and U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio announced that Eugene Airport has been approved for a fourth explosives detection system (EDS) machine.

The public transit system in Los Angeles has announced that it is the first in the U.S. to purchase millimeter wave scanners to screen metro riders for suspicious objects as they move through stations. 

A new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed at the Airports Council International (ACI) North America/World Annual General Assembly, Conference and Exhibition by and between ACI World, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) and the City of Atlanta, the owner and operator of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL).  

Mistakes in evaluating private screeners' applications have reignited the conversation over whether private screeners can be as efficient as TSA screeners.

TSA chief John Pistole said he has decided not to expand a program that allows airports to replace government screeners with private screeners, saying he does not see any advantage to it.