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Airport security screening processes are essential to ensure the safety of passengers and the aviation industry. Security at airports has improved noticeably in recent years through the utilisation of state-of-the-art technologies and highly trained security officers. However, maintaining a high level of security can be costly to operate and implement and can cause delays for passengers and airlines. In optimising a security process it is essential to strike a balance between time delays, security and reduced operation cost. This paper uses queueing theory as a method to study the impact of queue formation and the size of the security area on the average waiting time for the case of multi-lane parallel servers. An experiment is conducted to validate the proposed approach.
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Naji, M., Braytee, A., Anaissi, A., Sianaki, O.A., Al-Ani, A. (2020). Optimizing the Waiting Time for Airport Security Screening Using Multiple Queues and Servers. In: Barolli, L., Hussain, F., Ikeda, M. (eds) Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems. CISIS 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 993. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22354-0_44
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