Aviation Infectious Risk and Safety: A Collaborative Program for Modeling Infectious Disease Transmission in Air Travel

Armstrong, Jason; Koolhof, Iain; Ozcakir, Ozge; Pepper, Craig; Roberts, Shelley; Lebbin, Paul; Bennett, James; Brown, Clive; Mase, Sundari; Gearhart, Shannon; Gwynne, Steve; Uyhelji, Hilary A.; Tvaryanas, Anthony P.

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Aviation Infectious Risk and Safety: A Collaborative Program for Modeling Infectious Disease Transmission in Air Travel

2026-03-01
By Armstrong, Jason ; Koolhof, Iain ; Ozcakir, Ozge ; ...

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Armstrong, Jason ; Koolhof, Iain ; Ozcakir, Ozge ; Pepper, Craig ; Roberts, Shelley ; Lebbin, Paul ; Bennett, James ; Brown, Clive ; Mase, Sundari ; Gearhart, Shannon ; Gwynne, Steve ; Uyhelji, Hilary A. ; Tvaryanas, Anthony P.
Corporate Creators:

Boeing Company ; National Research Council Canada ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ; National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ; University of Greenwich. Department of Mathematical Sciences ; United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Aviation Administration. Civil Aerospace Medical Institute
Corporate Contributors:

United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Aviation Administration. Office of Aviation. Office of Aerospace Medicine
Subject/TRT Terms:

Air Travel Aviation Safety Communicable Diseases Pandemics Public Health Risk Assessment Safety Analysis Virus Transmission
Publication/ Report Number:

DOT/FAA/AM-26/06
DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21949/1529730
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Tech Report
Geographical Coverage:

United States
Corporate Publisher:

United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Aviation Administration. Office of Aviation. Office of Aerospace Medicine
Abstract:

The Aviation Infectious Risk and Safety (AIRS) program addresses the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) recommendation for stronger federal leadership and coordination on communicable disease transmission in air travel. Led by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), AIRS integrated The Boeing Company, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, National Research Council Canada, and other interdisciplinary partners to develop Travel Risk In Pandemics (TRIP-X), a modular, simulation-based tool estimating disease transmission risk in air travel. This commentary describes how TRIP-X filled GAO-identified gaps and highlights procedural enablers and challenges of multinational, intergovernmental, and industry collaboration: shared reproducible, operational decision support platform for evaluating mitigation strategies and informing policy. TRIP-X produces FAA-owned infection risk estimates intended to support Safety Risk Management, policy development, and aviation pandemic preparedness.
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Funding:

NAT-I-8917 ; 6973GH-23-H-00002 ; 6973GH-23-N-00003 ; 6973GH-23-H-00003 ; 6973GH-25-H-00002
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Federal Aviation Administration FAA Civil Aerospace Medical Institute
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