Integrated travel network model for studying epidemics: Interplay between journeys and epidemic.

ABSTRACT: The ease of travelling between cities has contributed much to globalization. Yet, it poses a threat on epidemic outbreaks. It is of great importance for network science and health control to understand the impact of frequent journeys on epidemics. We stress that a new framework of modelling that takes a traveller's viewpoint is needed. Such integrated travel network (ITN) model should incorporate the diversity among links as dictated by the distances between cities and different speeds of different modes of transportation, diversity among nodes as dictated by the population and the ease of travelling due to infrastructures and economic development of a city, and round-trip journeys to targeted destinations via the paths of shortest travel times typical of human journeys. An example is cons

SUBMITTER: Ruan Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4466778 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature