SAfE transport: wearing face masks significantly reduces the spread of COVID-19 on trains.

ABSTRACT: COVID-19 has had a substantial impact globally. It spreads readily, particularly in enclosed and crowded spaces, such as public transport carriages, yet there are limited studies on how this risk can be reduced. We developed a tool for exploring the potential impacts of mitigation strategies on public transport networks, called the Systems Analytics for Epidemiology in Transport (SAfE Transport). SAfE Transport combines an agent-based transit assignment model, a community-wide transmission model, and a transit disease spread model to support strategic and operational decision-making. For this simulated COVID-19 case study, the transit disease spread model incorporates both direct (person-to-person) and fomite (person-to-surface-to-person) transmission modes. We determine the probable impac

SUBMITTER: Grzybowska H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9382008 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature