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Working Paper: Modeling Infection Risk in Local Public Transport

Fouckhardt, Lea
Laufer, Sophie
Sauer, Jochen
Koch, Johanna
Schneider, Natalie
Sommer, Carsten

To model the infection risk in local public transport, additional information on the personal contacts during a trip with local public transport as well as the contact duration with them is necessary. As morning student traffic in local public transport vehicles was assumed to hold a high infection risk during the COVID-19 pandemic, staggered school starting times were tested in the city of Herne in Germany. The data obtained during this time was used to create a calculation tool for the number of personal contacts during a ride in a bus, based on the maximum occupancy during the ride. The average contact time with a person was dependent on the total ride time. Both values were adjusted for different vehicle types in local public transport.

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@unpublished{doi:10.17170/kobra-202401259432,
  author    ={Fouckhardt, Lea and Laufer, Sophie and Sauer, Jochen and Koch, Johanna and Schneider, Natalie and Sommer, Carsten},
  title    ={Working Paper: Modeling Infection Risk in Local Public Transport},
  keywords ={620 and Öffentlicher Personennahverkehr and Infektionsrisiko and Kontakt and Dauer and Modell},
  copyright  ={https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/},
  language ={en},
  year   ={2024}
}