Human Geo Paper

Sam Werneke and Konnor Drewen

Honors Human Geography

The Effects of 9/11

9/11 has affected the world in many ways. Through the snowball effect it changed our whole airport security and economy. It also has changed the way we travel internationally. It has also helped change technology to be better secured for travel. In our blog we’ll cover the most important effects

The beginning effects of 9/11 were the traveling and cost to travel. The way we traveled then has drastically changed to now. After 9/11 air traffic dropped from over 7 million people to below 4 million in a year. This is due to insecure passengers and bad security. Between the years of 2001 and 2002 the global economy experienced a lower demand for people wanting to travel through the FAA.

The first days after 9/11 the whole air system shut down and no one could travel. The economy followed that fuel and ticket prices were drastically raised and made it harder to travel. They also bumped up security a lot to prevent any more attacks. Companies raced to build the next generation of security technologies. Because of the less people traveling internationally, trade was down dramatically along with jobs and businesses.

With World Trade Center down, it did not help with the economy and trade businesses to recover as fast as they needed to. While recovering from 9/11 the air traffic system was on their way to creating and new and improved way to track in coming and going planes. They also worked on the security and safeness of all the airport companies to improve safeness and prevent future disasters like 9/11. These are the beginning effects but not the last they continue make things safer and better for the whole world. America has set the bar for the standards of air safety.



The effects of 9/11 are still changing the way we travel. Through the recent years air travel has been up and improved. Destinations have changed tremendously though. More people travel within the country now instead of outside. They now have longer wait times to go through all the check points to keep a safe and controlled system.

Since 9/11 technology has made a change for the better. The equipment in airports all around the world is the most up-to-date technology you can find. The prices of the equipment are very high but airlines purchase them because it makes their airline safer. Today’s technology and equipment include full body scanners and high-end metal detectors. These all help make our airports safer and more efficient in stopping future attacks.

The constantly changing rules and regulations make it harder and longer to get on flights. It also restricts what you can bring on a flight. The economy today is still recovering. We are constantly moving in and out of the country and that makes it very hard to keep track of everyone.

That is why today’s air systems keep improving and helping everyone stays safe when they travel by air.





9/11 also had a large effect on the future economy and the future air travel. The effects of 9/11 were started back then but have continued into our time now. Although the economy underwent a major recession and has since recovered the effects have traveled with us for years and will most likely follow us for many more.

The events of 9/11 have also affected the future technology used by the FAA. The FAA now is moving from using radar based navigation to more advanced satellite based navigation. While radar technology needs the airplane to fly over the radars on the ground to get the airplanes location, the satellites would be able to find the airplanes location anywhere in the county at any time.

There is also is new developing airport security for the future. There are new securities systems in development in counties that already are in use in others. For example airports are now using hidden cameras that can give away certain reactions when asked questions, like a rise in the heart rate or the body temperature rising suggesting that they are nervous or they are lying when asked a question. While now in America we are in development of different airport security. It is called the Future Attribute Screening Technology or FAST. It is kind of like a polygraph test or a “lie detector”. It is able to look over lines of people and if it has found someone of interest that could be a possible terrorist or someone who might harm someone else, and then if he is chosen by security for additional screening it can then detect certain facial movements that could mean he is lying or possibly telling the truth.

With the use of this new technology and more security personnel airports hope to put an end to terrorism in the airports altogether. With the technology it makes the airports safer and it makes it easier to pick out a person of interest from a crowd. But if it wasn’t for 9/11 we would not have to go through the trouble of creating all the new security and that is how 9/11 affected the future of air travel.






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