Localized Incidences of Terrorism and Their Impact on Perceived Security of International Air Travel

This paper aims to evaluate for the first the impact of local terrorism incidents on the perception of international travel security. The paper investigates attitudes towards air travel and security and determines if travellers are willing to experience even more invasive security measures in the (immediate) aftermath of a terrorist action, using empirical evidence from the Australian context. A diverse set of attitudinal questions and separate choice experiments are used to capture perceptions of route/destination security, security procedures that traveller agree with most or least, and the trade-offs in security procedures, time, money and threat detection that travellers are prepared to make.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AV090 Standing Committee on Aviation Security and Emergency Management.
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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• Authors:
  • Beck, Matthew J
  • Rose, John M
  • Merkert, Rico
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 95th Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC, United States
  • Date: 2016-1-10 to 2016-1-14
• Date: 2016

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 17p
• Monograph Title: TRB 95th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air travel; Attitudes; International travel; National security; Terrorism
• Geographic Terms: Australia
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies; I70: Traffic and Transport;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01589967
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 16-5039
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Feb 8 2016 10:36AM