Analysis of future threats to civil aviation within the project COPRA (Comprehensive European Approach to the Protection of Civil Aviation)

Abstract

In the last decades and after 9/11 more and more security technologies, regulations and processes have been implemented into the aviation security system without fully integrating them. This has led to a complex and time consuming system that cannot handle the expected increase of passengers in the next decades. COPRA aims to set up a research roadmap for a European perspective on short-, mid- and long-term aviation security concepts, standards and proliferation issues. In this contribution we present the overall approach of COPRA and the first fundamental step where we focus on the threat analysis to detect the threat situation and its evolution regarding new and emerging threats. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.