Biometrics
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Transportation
Few sectors of the economy are as complex as transportation. Trucking, rail travel, aviation, and shipping have begun to use biometrics to make sure that transport employees of all kinds – especially key personnel like drivers, engineers, pilots, and ships’ officers and seamen – are who they claim to be, and that they are authorized to access the transport system. Truck drivers who pick up containers at seaports, for example, are being biometrically screened to authenticate their identities and make sure they pick up the right shipments. Biometrics are also being used to verify that operators of heavy transportation equipment are not exceeding time limits on working hours. Digital manifests are being linked with biometrically-identified drivers to prevent theft and tampering. In the future, biometrics and radio frequency identification (RFID) systems will be used together to identify, tag, and track shipments and people throughout integrated transportation networks.
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