Registered Travellers to speed through checkpoints
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Airports do not seem to keep up with the consistent increase on security concerns surrounding travel and thereby more often than not, falls short in implementing an efficient and effective way on how to process security checkpoints.
This has become a huge problem in the recent years, and has created a large scale of congestion causing inconvenience to all passengers.
A solution to all these seems to be an offering of a new biometrics-based program that is now underway at selected airports in the US, that provides pre-screened travellers expedited passage through dedicated security lanes.
Operated by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and in cooperation with industry partners, the way RT works is by giving the TSA-approved passengers with “smart” cards that validate identity and prevent fraudulent use by unauthorized persons.
The card is encoded with the passenger’s unique biometric data, and cross-checked and verified against the traveller’s fingerprints or iris image.
If successful in being effective and accepted widely by the public, it will soon be implemented in the US on a national scale and possibly a few European countries will not be far behind.
This new hope of an end to congested security checkpoints also comes at a good time as the Asian region prepares itself for a surge in tourism during the Beijing Olympics next year.
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