According to a recent study, passenger satisfaction with airline service rose for the first time in many years.
This will require a refinement of the model for the specific domains, to compare simulation results with real data, to study passenger behaviors, and to collaborate with the authorities overseeing and regulating these systems.
But Mr. Carafano said that traditional security procedures, including explosives-sniffing dogs and machines, and agents studying passengers for nervous behavior, could go far to reduce such a threat.
In their analysis, the researchers studied passenger and survivor lists from both ships, and considered gender, age, ticket class, nationality and familial relationships with other passengers.
"Increasingly, passengers are certain that the airlines are not on their side and actually don't care anything about them," said Irwin Sarason, a University of Washington psychologist in Seattle who has studied passenger behavior, in a recent article in The Wall Street Journal.
In this case the results of field studies, passenger counts, interviews and literature review led to the description of different Personas.
His final two films, Iris, a portrait of fashion icon Iris Apfel, and In Transit, a study of passengers on the Empire Builder train, will be screened in 2015.
People will be invited to use a self-drive car simulator that uses a realistic 3D model of the area to study how passengers in a driverless vehicle react to the experience.
For practical reasons, the participants in the study were passengers and not drivers.
