Epidemic spreading induced by diversity of agents’ mobility

• Main Authors: Zhou, Jie, Chung, Ning Ning, Chew, Lock Yue, Lai, Choy Heng
• Other Authors: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science::Physics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/95440; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/9313
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In this paper, we study the impact of the preference of an individual for public transport on the spread of infectious disease, through a quantity known as the public mobility. Our theoretical and numerical results based on a constructed model reveal that if the average public mobility of the agents...