Multistate Assessment of Roadway Travel, Social Separation, and COVID-19 Cases
Multistate Assessment of Roadway Travel, Social Separation, and COVID-19 Cases
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DOI：
10.1061/jtepbs.0000528
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发表时间：
2021-05-01
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Lomax, Tim
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作者：
Parr, Scott;Wolshon, Brian;Lomax, Tim
该研究旨在比较评估2020年上半年美国爆发2019冠状病毒病（COVID-19）相关的前所未有的旅行和活动状况。在这项工作中，道路交通量被用来将十个人口密集和位置分散的州的政府指令与社会隔离和COVID-19病例进展联系起来。该研究的主要贡献之一是说明了全国范围内公众对活动限制的反应的数量和时间范围，以及总体上的一般发现，反映在交通迅速减少中的政府指令可能达到了目的。另一个关键发现是，到6月1日，没有一个州完全恢复到常规旅行水平。综合起来，这项研究的结果说明了政府行动对病毒传播过程的影响，包括不同的反应时间如何反映出基于威胁程度和各个地点特点的结果。预计本文将用于实践者，政府和研究人员，以评估和制定计划，为未来类似的重大事件和紧急情况。
This research was undertaken to comparatively assess the unprecedented travel and activity conditions related to the onset of coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) in the US in the first half of 2020. In this effort, roadway traffic volumes were used to relate government directives for social separation and COVID-19 case progression in ten diversely populated and located states. Among the key contributions of the research were its illustration of the amount and time scale of public response to activity restrictions across the country and the general finding that overall, governmental directives, as reflected in rapid traffic decreases, likely served their purpose. Another key finding was that by June 1st, no state had completely returned to routine levels of travel. Combined, the results of this study illustrate the effect of governmental action with respect to the course of the virus, including how varied timings of responses reflected outcomes based on the levels of threat and characteristics of individual locations. It is expected that this paper will be of use to practitioners, governmental, and researchers to assess and develop plans for future similar major events and emergencies.