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DY: Fachverband Dynamik und Statistische Physik

DY 25: Nonlinear Dynamics 2 - organized by Azam Gholami (Göttingen)

DY 25.1: Vortrag

Dienstag, 23. März 2021, 11:00–11:20, DYc

Social distancing in pedestrian dynamics and its effect on disease spreading — Sina Sajjadi, Alireza Hashemi, and •Fakhteh Ghanbarnejad — Physics Department, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

Non-pharmaceutical measures such as social distancing, can play an important role to control an epidemic. In this paper, we study the impact of social distancing on epidemics for which it is executable. We use a mathematical model combining human mobility and disease spreading. For the mobility dynamics, we design an agent based model consisting of pedestrian dynamics with a novel type of force to resemble social distancing in crowded sites. For the spreading dynamics, we consider the compartmental SEI dynamics plus an indirect transmission with the footprints of the infectious pedestrians being the contagion factor. We show that the increase in the intensity of social distancing has a significant effect on the exposure risk. By classifying the population into social distancing abiders and non-abiders, we conclude that the practice of social distancing, even by a minority of potentially infectious agents, results in a drastic change on the population exposure risk, but reduces the effectiveness of the protocols when practiced by the rest of the population. Furthermore, we observe that for contagions which the indirect transmission is more significant, the effectiveness of social distancing would be reduced. This study can provide a quantitative guideline for policy-making on exposure risk reduction.

arXiv preprint: arXiv:2010.12839