Measuring the Impact of the Large-scale Adoption of Ridesharing on the Spread of Infectious Diseases
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In the near future, ride-sharing vehicles are expected to serve a significant fraction of the transportation demands in cities and urban areas. In the past two decades, there has been an increased occurrence of highly infectious diseases like COVID-19 in the world. The simultaneous increase in ride-sharing penetration in the cities and the occurrence of infectious diseases around the world raise a question about the safety of ride-sharing vehicles amid an infectious disease outbreak. In this project, we investigate the role of ride-sharing vehicles in the spread of COVID-19 in metropolitan areas. To this end, we consider a compartmental model to capture the progression of SARS-CoV2 infections in an urban population and an agent-based
simulation to capture the ride-sharing exposure to the disease. It is shown through the simulation that in the absence of any within-vehicle disease-control measures, ride-sharing can
aggravate the spread of disease. Furthermore, it is shown that effective implementation of disease outbreak control measures at the ride-sharing level can almost nullify this aggravation.
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2021-03-31
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