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The figure is a good description of the high level process. However, to understand what happens inside a baggage handling system (BHS) it is necessary with a more detailed understanding of the steps 2, 3, 4 and 5.
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Events and timestamps
It is necessary to collect data about a bag from many places in the baggage process to be able to:
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All further discussion here is based on data elements defined by the Airport Data Dictionary, Mapping from IATA data formats are documented here: Mapping of IATA (telex) baggage data formats to ADD
Durations
Based on the events and timestamps above the following durations have been defined.
Counts
The following baggage related counts have been defined:
Bag status indicators
The following boolean indicators have been defined:
| Indicator | Description | To: Baggage data analytics row - bag oriented |
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| BagWasRejected | | Excerpt Include |
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| ADD:BagWasRejected |
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| ADD:BagWasRejected |
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| nopanel | true |
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| Yes |
| BagWasDeliveredToBhsInTime | | Excerpt Include |
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| ADD:BagWasDeliveredToBhsInTime |
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| ADD:BagWasDeliveredToBhsInTime |
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| nopanel | true |
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|
| Yes |
| BagWasDeliveredToBhsLate | | Excerpt Include |
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| ADD:BagWasDeliveredToBhsLate |
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| ADD:BagWasDeliveredToBhsLate |
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| nopanel | true |
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|
| Yes |
| BagWasDeliveredToBhsTooLate | | Excerpt Include |
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| ADD:BagWasDeliveredToBhsTooLate |
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| ADD:BagWasDeliveredToBhsTooLate |
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| nopanel | true |
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|
| Yes |
| BagWasDeliveredFromBhsInTime | | Excerpt Include |
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| ADD:BagWasDeliveredFromBhsInTime |
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| ADD:BagWasDeliveredFromBhsInTime |
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| nopanel | true |
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|
| Yes |
| BagWasDeliveredFromBhsLate | | Excerpt Include |
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| ADD:BagWasDeliveredFromBhsLate |
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| ADD:BagWasDeliveredFromBhsLate |
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| nopanel | true |
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|
| Yes |
| BagWasDeliveredFromBhsTooLate | | Excerpt Include |
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| ADD:BagWasDeliveredFromBhsTooLate |
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| ADD:BagWasDeliveredFromBhsTooLate |
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| nopanel | true |
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|
| Yes |
| BagWasSentToMcs | | Excerpt Include |
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| ADD:BagWasSentToMcs |
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| ADD:BagWasSentToMcs |
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| nopanel | true |
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|
| Yes |
| BagWasSentToProblemBin | | Excerpt Include |
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| ADD:BagWasSentToProblemBin |
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| ADD:BagWasSentToProblemBin |
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| nopanel | true |
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|
| Yes |
| BagBsmWasProblem | | Excerpt Include |
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| ADD:BagBsmWasProblem |
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| ADD:BagBsmWasProblem |
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| nopanel | true |
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|
| Yes |
| BagTagWasNotSeenInBhs | | Excerpt Include |
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| ADD:BagTagWasNotSeenInBhs |
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| ADD:BagTagWasNotSeenInBhs |
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| nopanel | true |
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|
| Yes |
| BagHasLoadedEvent | | Excerpt Include |
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| ADD:BagHasLoadedEvent |
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| ADD:BagHasLoadedEvent |
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| nopanel | true |
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|
| Yes |
| BagWasLost | | Excerpt Include |
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| ADD:BagWasLost |
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| ADD:BagWasLost |
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| nopanel | true |
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|
| Yes |
Timestamp | Comment | | 1 | BagTagPrinted | BTPRT | Not all bag tags printed are actually used on baggage that are checked |
| 1 | BagManualChecked | 1 | BagSbdChecked
| 1 | BagRejected | 1 | BhsAcceptBag | 2 | BhsSecScanStart | With multi level security this can occur several times. | 2 | BhsSecScanFinished | With multi level security this can occur several times. | 2 | BhsSecScanRejected | With multi level security this can occur several times. | 2/3 | BhsBagToMCS | This can occur several times. | 2/3 | BhsBagFromMCS | This can occur several times. | 4 | BhsBagToEBS | Most likely only once. | 4 | BhsBagFromEBS | Most likely only once. | 5 | BhsDeliverBag | 5/6 | BagFromBHS | 7 | BagOnAircraft | 8 | BagOffAircraft | 10 | BagToTransfer | 11 | BagOnBelt | 12 | BagToPassenger | 1-10 | BagInfoReceived | 1-10 | BagTagScanned |
