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Control Strategies toward the Mitigation of Public Transport Exposure Risk

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Health".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 August 2024 | Viewed by 332

Special Issue Editors


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Guest Editor
Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, MD 21702, USA
Interests: infectious disease; control strategies; mobility trends; mobility management; transportation networks; public health; applied machine learning; epidemiology; biological network modeling

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Guest Editor
Department of Computer Science, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23284, USA
Interests: systems biology; stochastic modeling and discrete event simulation; reverse engineering analysis and visualization of gene regulatory networks (GRNs); static/dynamic modeling and control of network robustness; graph theoretic analysis of protein interaction networks to identify functionally significant modules; mobile ubiquitous and grid computing; optimization problems in wireless networks

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The advent of new types and strains of viruses causing infectious diseases makes policymaking around healthcare an absolute imperative. It is self-evident that human mobility and infection spread are interrelated: human mobility has been implicated as a significant component of contagion, while on the other hand, the ensuing public health crisis caused by the pandemic has also impacted long-term mobility trends. This necessitates effective urban transportation planning to ensure public health and wellbeing against future outbreaks. In part, this issue will deal with computational models for transportation management to control the spread of infectious diseases. It will explore the social, demographic, behavioral, and epidemiological aspects of post-pandemic mobility. Finally, it will comment on the economic aspects of urban transportation and a contingency plan to deploy a pool of essential workers to stand in for their peers in the event of outbreaks or meet a surge in demand when lockdown restrictions are lifted. The topics of interest include but are not limited to:

  • Epidemic modeling for contact tracing using transportation networks;
  • Optimization frameworks for safety-to-mobility trade-off;
  • Urban planning for pandemic management;
  • Private transportation to mitigate social contact;
  • Mobility and social equity;
  • Changes in behavior toward public transportation;
  • Environmental impacts of post-pandemic transportation alternatives;
  • Visualization tools for real-time mobility management.

Dr. Satyaki Roy
Prof. Dr. Preetam Ghosh
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Keywords

  • infectious disease
  • control strategies
  • mobility trends
  • mobility management
  • transportation networks
  • epidemic modeling

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