Infection transmission and prevention in metropolises with heterogeneous and dynamic populations

Shabnam Rezapour, Atefe Baghaian, Nazanin Naderi and Juan P. Sarmiento

European Journal of Operational Research, 2023, vol. 304, issue 1, 113-138

Abstract: Due to dense social contacts, metropolises are considered as epicenters of contagious infectious diseases. Developing models for infection transmission and mitigation in metropolises is a challenging problem because of spatiotemporal variations in their population structures. Employing the fact that intra-urban mobility is mainly shaped by the transportation infrastructure and reflected in the traffic flux information, a novel multi-scale reaction-diffusion process is developed to model infection transmission in a metropolis.

Keywords: OR in health services; Infection transmission; Non-pharmaceutical interventions; Resource allocation; Mobility networks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2021.09.016

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