Project Lead: Andrew Robinson
Biosecurity risk management for international passengers faces unique challenges and offers unique opportunities. Post-COVID passenger counts are steadily increasing, and infrastructure places sharp constraints on the suite of interventions that can be applied.
Information about the efficacy of interventions is essential to these undertakings. Deploying efficient interventions to manage the biosecurity risk presented by passenger cohorts is critical in the light of increasing passenger numbers. Information on the relative efficacy of different measures is available (through PAX compliance monitoring surveys), however, work to improve outcomes optimising the performance of interventions and the return on investment across all interventions has yet to be attempted.
This project will analyse data available through CEBRA projects (Valuation) and collected by border services to design an analysis protocol to optimising the performance of individual and joint interventions, and the return on investment across all interventions.
It will propose a data capture and analysis protocol that will provide transparent and resilient information about intervention efficacy and return on investment, which will enable improved planning for biosecurity risk management for international passengers (particularly at Auckland but also more generally), how to respond to projected short-term changes in airport infrastructure, and how to improve the overall performance of the PAX clearance system.