2020
DOI: 10.3389/fphy.2020.00376
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One-Way Pedestrian Traffic Is a Means of Reducing Personal Encounters in Epidemics

Abstract: Minimizing social contact is an important tool to reduce the spread of diseases but harms people's well-being. This and other more compelling reasons urge people to walk outside periodically. The present work explores how organizing the traffic of pedestrians affects the number of walking or running people passing by each other. By applying certain rules, this number can be significantly reduced, potentially reducing the contribution of person-to-person contagion to the basic reproductive number, R 0. One exam… Show more

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“…The latter is a natural way to model with the cellular automata technique. However, we note that also convection-like processes (i.e., the population can flow within the system) may play a crucial role at both large [ 53 ] and local scales [ 19 , 54 ].…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The latter is a natural way to model with the cellular automata technique. However, we note that also convection-like processes (i.e., the population can flow within the system) may play a crucial role at both large [ 53 ] and local scales [ 19 , 54 ].…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…La feria comercial urbana, la conducta peatonal y la necesidad de distanciamiento social Además de ser una de las crisis económicas más relevantes de los últimos siglos, la pandemia del COVID-19 ha significado un reto para la acción urbana y, posiblemente, constituye un punto de cambio en la forma en cómo planificamos las ciudades (Abusaada, & Elshater, 2020;Martínez, & Short, 2021;Psyllidis et al, 2021). A partir de esta situación, se ha debatido ampliamente acerca de la configuración del espacio público, el transporte, la conectividad y la economía urbana, de lo cual han derivado propuestas conceptuales e intervenciones inmediatas diversas (Mello, 2020). De esta manera, la pandemia ha sido un episodio que ha dado como resultado una reevaluación de la naturaleza del espacio público en las ciudades, así como su estudio y planificación (Lusk et al, 2020;Mello, 2020).…”
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“…A partir de esta situación, se ha debatido ampliamente acerca de la configuración del espacio público, el transporte, la conectividad y la economía urbana, de lo cual han derivado propuestas conceptuales e intervenciones inmediatas diversas (Mello, 2020). De esta manera, la pandemia ha sido un episodio que ha dado como resultado una reevaluación de la naturaleza del espacio público en las ciudades, así como su estudio y planificación (Lusk et al, 2020;Mello, 2020).…”
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“…Staff could alternate the patients and clients attended in hospitals and restaurants. Rules could be applied to pedestrian traffic [19]. Forced ventilation could be used in a closed environment to homogenize the pathogen concentration, playing a role similar to altering the distance between people [20].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%