Border biosecurity interceptions for air passengers – assessing intervention methods and analytic tools

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Authors

Nicholas Patrick Moran , Anca M Hanea, Andrew P Robinson

Abstract

At-border interventions are a critical step along the biosecurity continuum, to measure and control the risks associated with the cross-border movement of people and goods. Air passengers are a high-volume pathway for a range of biosecurity risk materials, against which various interventions may be used (e.g., manual searches, detector dogs, x-rays, etc.). Using a large interception database for air passengers entering the southern Australian state of Tasmania, this study applies common statistical modelling tools to assess the efficacy of interventions (namely, dog detectors, and bag searches), and to identify pathway risk factors (e.g., fli...  more

DOI

https://doi.org/10.32942/X2JW42

Subjects

Agriculture, Biosecurity, Life Sciences

Keywords

Ceratitis capitata, Ceratitis capitata, Bactrocera tryoni, fruit fly, invasive species, passenger screening, pathway risk analysis, sniffer dogs, detector dogs, border biosecurity, Bactrocera tryoni, fruit fly, Invasive species, passenger screening, pathway risk analysis, sniffer dogs, detector dogs

Dates

Published: 2024-11-14 13:51

Last Updated: 2024-11-14 18:51

License

CC-BY Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

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Language:
English

Conflict of interest statement:
None

Data and Code Availability Statement:
https://osf.io/78tv9/