Abstract: A process and system for identifying and tracking persons and related articles, includes the steps of registering a person and one or more articles in a coordinated relationship, storing information concerning the person, the articles and the coordinated relationship in a database, cross-referencing RFID tags with the information stored in the database, attaching the cross-referenced RFID tags to the person and at least one of the articles, reading the RFID tags at random intervals, and enabling an alarm if the RFID tags do not match the cross-referenced information stored in the database. The invention also includes a system for performing this inventive process. The process may be adapted to various situations, a particularly preferred embodiment is adapted to the transportation industry.