The Road of the Luggage

WORLD OF AIRPORT LUGGAGE" "THE MYSTERIOUS WORLD (A BEHIND THE SCENES LOOK AT WHAT HAPPENS TO YOUR LUGGAGE WHEN YOU TAKE IT TO THE AIRPORT) START Drop off bag your bag at check-in desk. 6583 3254 A barcode sticker is attached to your bag to identify its owner and destination. Your Luggage travels from check-in to a large screening area, where it undergoes: Explosive trace detection screening Size checking Baggage label checks X-ray CT screening According to the checks the machines will divert your luggage to your aircraft or, if suspicious, remove them for further analysis. Suspicious baggage On average 30% of all luggage will be stopped for further inspection. If a bag fails any of the automated checks it will be given a 'red flag'. 'Red flag' items are diverted to a checking area to be inspected by customs official, In the US this will be a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) worker. This official will: Place the luggage on a metal examining table. Swab the bag with a cloth-tipped wand to check for traces of explosive or illegal substances. If no dangerous or illegal substance are found the luggage will be sent back to the conveyer belt to continue its journey. If traces of explosives are detected a Bomb Appraisal Officer will be brought in to evaluate the threat. Your baggage will be delivered along numerous conveyor belts, by way of: Rollers Diverters Merges Power bends To ensure smooth running, there are automated Pushers systems designed to deal with traffic jams, so when a bag blocks the way, others can be diverted around it. Upon reaching the end of the conveyer belt it will either be placed by hand onto a luggage cart or placed into a metal container, which will then be placed onto the luggage cart. The luggage cart delivers your luggage to your plane where it will be hand-placed or machine-hoisted into the cargo hold. UPON THE PLANE LANDING AT YOUR DESTINATION THE PROCESS WILL REVERSE (MINUS THE SECURITY CHECKS) Luggage is unloaded from the cargo hold. A luggage cart delivers it to the appropriate conveyer. FINISH THE CONVEYER BELT SYSTEM AUTOMATICALLY DELIVERS IT TO THE APPROPRIATE YOU COLLECT LUGGAGE CAROUSEL. YOUR BAG FROM THE CAROUSEL. Want to treat your luggage to something special? DAIFUK LAX NEW YORK'S JFK LAX JAPAN DUBAI HAMBURG AIRPORT Boasts a Daifuku Baggage Tray Luggage AIRPORT, LoganLM Camsort Can transport, divert and push 80 bags a System Luggage undertakes a renovated undertakes a GERMANY 450m per Several kilometers system prioritizing bag hygiene 600m per minute minute of conveyor minute* journey** journey *** belts **** Sometimes things go wrong DENVER LONDON NEW YORK'S AIRPORT HEATHROW JFK AIRPORT Its pristine Terminal 5 development didn't quite Its planned state of the art 200 thefts a day baggage handling system ended up being too hard to realize, too expensive to get the fanfare it had hoped for when it were alleged to be taking place in March 2012***** ve to Heathrow implement, and ultimately never opened in 2008, as the baggage system failed to keep up with demand. even really got off the ground before it was scrapped in 2005. What are they odds? 400 million This means that The Department of Transport reported that only 3.09 out of every 1000 bags passing through airports are reported lost or damaged +. 1.2 million bags pass through the bags go missing in the US every year ++. hands of US carriers every year ++. But don't let that With more than 800 million passengers flying each year in the US alone +++ The odds are in your favor that all those conveyor belts will do their job, your case will have a much more exciting journey than you have. scare and you... RETHINKING CHECKED-BAGGAGE SCREENING http://www.policyarchive.org/ (^) Airport Technology - www.airport-technology.com (*) Bureau of Transportation Statistics - www.transtats.bts.gov (+++) CBS Local – www.newyork.cbslocal.com (*****) Conde Nast Traveler - www.cntraveler.com (++) Department of Transportation - www.dot.gov (+) How Stuff Works - www.science.howstuffworks.com Jervis B. Webb - www.jervisbwebb.com Live Science - www.livescience.com (**) Los Angeles World Airports - www.lawa.org New York Times - www.nytimes.com Nord Drivesystems - www2.nord.com (****) Robson Handling Technology - www.robson.co.uk Siemens - w3.siemens.com (***) Transportation Security Administration - www.tsa.gov Why Projects Fail – www.calleam.com Why Projects Fail – www.calleam.com The plane truth: The secret life of luggage - http://www.independent.co.uk/ Confessions of a Baggage Screener - http://www.wired.com/ Layers of Security - http://www.tsa.gov/