What types of transactions are handled by a baggage handling system?
“The baggage handling system must perform several key roles: they must move bags from the check–in area to the departure gate, move bags from gate to gate, and move bags from the arrival gate to the baggage claim. The systems must be both accurate and fast, and baggage should move from its current location to its destination faster than travelers can get there.” (Laudon p. 48)

What are the management, organization, and technology components of a baggage handling system? What is the purpose of a baggage handling system?
One key management aspect of the baggage handling system is it helps to improve business values such as interacting with customers to know their needs. Baggage handling systems were able to promote customer good will as well as reduce costs by developing efficient ways of handling customer's baggage.
The organizational component of the baggage handling system is it provides middle management with reports on the organization’s current performance. This information is used to monitor and control the business and predict future performance. It also can be used as a transaction Processing System- a computerized system that performs and records the daily routine transactions necessary to conduct business, or a decision-support systems- focus on problems that are unique and rapidly changing, for which the procedure for arriving at a solution may not be fully predefined in advance.
The technology component is expansive technology used in these systems include destination-coded vehicles, automatic bar code scanners, use of radio frequency identification tags, and high-tech conveyors equipped with sorting machines.
Sensors, actuators, mechanical devices, and computers.
Destination-coded vehicles unmanned carts propelled by linear induction motors mounted to the tracks, can load and