Mitigating Exposure to Airborne Diseases for Public Transportation Passengers and Employees: Executive Summary (2024)
Chapter: Front Matter
RESEARCH FOCUS ______________________________________________________
Mitigating Exposure to
Airborne Diseases for Public
Transportation Passengers
and Employees
Executive Summary
This summary and an associated publication, TCRP Web-Only Document 78/NCHRP Web-Only Document 410: Protecting Transportation Employees and the Traveling Public from Airborne Diseases, were developed jointly under TCRP Project F-30 and NCHRP Project 23-13(02). TCRP Web-Only Document 78/NCHRP Web-Only Document 410 is available on the National Academies Press website nap.nationalacademies.org.
The Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) is sponsored by the Federal Transit Administration in cooperation with the American Public Transportation Association. The National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) is sponsored by the individual state departments of transportation of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials. TCRP and NCHRP are administered by the Transportation Research Board (TRB), part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Any opinions and conclusions expressed or implied in resulting research products are those of the individuals and organizations who performed the research and are not necessarily those of TRB; the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; or TCRP and NCHRP sponsors.
Heejung Jung
Brenda Lopez
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
Riverside, CA
Jacob Swanson
Kevin Dover
Anne Kerber
MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY
Mankato, MN
Cover photo: Image courtesy of Brenda Lopez.
The cover photo shows a bus equipped with a parallel airflow system with rear and front blowers positioned inside the test vehicle.
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