Measuring the Impact of the Large-Scale Adoption of Ridesharing on the Spread of Infectious Diseases

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• Creators:
  Paudel, Diwas ; Melendez, Kevin A ; Chacreton, Daniel ; Das, Tapas K. ; Ortiz, Miguel Reina ; Kwon, Changhyun
• Corporate Creators:
  University of South Florida. Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Department of Transportation ; United States. Department of Transportation. University Transportation Centers (UTC) Program
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Communicable diseases
  • Public health
  • Market penetration
  • Metropolitan areas
  • Ridesharing
  • Simulation
  • COVID-19 SARS-CoV-2
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Edition:
  Final Report 10/01/2019 – 03/31/2021
• Corporate Publisher:
  Cornell University. Center for Transportation, Environment, and Community Health. (CTECH)
• Abstract:
  In the near future, ride-sharing vehicles are expected to serve a significant fraction of the transportation demands in cities and urban areas. In the past two decades, there has been an increased occurrence of highly infectious diseases like COVID-19 in the world. The simultaneous increase in ride-sharing penetration in the cities and the occurrence of infectious diseases around the world raise a question about the safety of ride-sharing vehicles amid an infectious disease outbreak. In this paper, we investigate the role of ride-sharing vehicles in the spread of COVID-19 in metropolitan areas. To this end, we considered a compartmental model to capture the progression of SARS-CoV-2 infections in an urban population and an agent-based simulation to capture the ride-sharing exposure to the disease. It is shown through the simulation that in the absence of any within-vehicle disease-control measures, ride-sharing can aggravate the spread of disease. Furthermore, it is shown that effective implementation of disease outbreak control measures at the ride-sharing level can almost nullify this aggravation.
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  69A3551747119
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/56089/dot_56089_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 913.08 KB]
• Collection(s):
  University Transportation Centers ; US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
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