Information aspects of security in transport: Ontology of the subject area, models, and cases

Transport safety issues are considered from the point of view of information support. For this purpose, a description of the subject area for the basic process is formed — the transportation of passengers. The main objects of the subject area and links are highlighted and their descriptions are given. The conceptual model details the description of the subject area up to the indication of specific dictionaries and classifiers, class diagrams. “Complex passenger” and “trip” are proposed as key objects. “Complex passenger” is a technique that allows combining information about one individual making “trips” by different types of transport, i. e., accompanied by different sets of attributes, based on versatile defined identification rules. The description of the ontology is finally given. It is proposed as the basis for the implementation of a full-fledged decision support system in the selected field. The proposed methodology was used by the authors in a number of completed projects and proved its effectiveness.