Communicable Disease Transmission in Air Travel: Jet Bridge Ventilation [supporting dataset]

Details

• Creators:
  Lebbin, Paul ; Laengert, Scott
• Corporate Creators:
  National Research Council of Canada
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Aviation Administration. Office of Aviation. Office of Aerospace Medicine
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Data
  • Aviation
  • Aircraft cabins
  • Aircraft gates
  • Field tests
  • Human factors
  • Communicable diseases
  • Ventilation systems
  • Travel behavior
  • Laboratory tests
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.21949/qqdx-gh59
• Resource Type:
  Dataset
• Right Statement:
  Open Access; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Geographical Coverage:
  Canada
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Aviation Administration. Office of Aerospace Medicine. Civil Aerospace Medical Institute (CAMI)
• Abstract:
  The data files provided in the dataset are organized to supply both primary time-series measurements and visualization-ready structural files. The core temporal data for air speed, aerosol, and tracer gas experiments are housed in the 01-CSV folder in a standard spreadsheet format, while corresponding environmental conditions-such as the temperature, flow, and pressure of the conditioned air-are located in the 05-HVAC folder. To support spatial analysis and animation, the 02-TXT folder contains the exact same measurement data from the CSVs but restructured into a block format. This block format is specifically designed to be paired with the bridge wall boundary coordinates found in the 00-Templates folder, enabling users to generate time-lapse contour plots and video visualizations of the flow and dispersion patterns. ; Beyond the raw time-series logs, the dataset includes systematically processed statistical summaries for each test configuration. Because particulate and tracer gas concentrations change dynamically during an experiment, the 06-Periods folder documents the precise start times and durations when measurements achieved quasi-steady state conditions. These specific steady-state timeframes were used to calculate statistics (such as mean, median, and standard deviation) for each individual test repetition, which are stored in the 03-Averages folder across parameters like CO₂, particulate matter bins, temperature, and air velocity. Finally, the 04-Summary folder aggregates these results further by averaging the data from multiple repetitions of the same test together, providing an overall, composite summary for each unique jet bridge configuration. ; The total size of the ZIP file is 750,584 KB
• Content Notes:
  This item is made available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Use the following citation: Lebbin, P., Laengert, S. (2026). "Communicable Disease Transmission in Air Travel: Jet Bridge Ventilation Dataset". Civil Aerospace Medical Institute - Federal Aviation Administration.
• Format:
  ZIP
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/92577/dot_92577_DS1.json
• File Type:
  [JSON - 2.53 MB]
• Collection(s):
  FAA Civil Aerospace Medical Institute
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:94450c84498a8ba94e01d2a46787be47f74e990a382bf7715a1bbbfd014c5a3fe46b739abc457a46a49b6842e0ff4f034bf3eadc8c79af2174ccbfb8cf917726