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ArticlePLoS computational biology2021

Trip duration drives shift in travel network structure with implications for the predictability of spatial disease spread.

John R Giles, Derek A T Cummings, Bryan T Grenfell, Andrew J Tatem, Elisabeth Zu Erbach-Schoenberg, Cje Metcalf, Amy Wesolowski

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Article in PLoS computational biology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

John R GilesDepartment of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0002-0954-4093
Derek A T CummingsDepartment of Biology and the Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0002-9437-1907
Bryan T GrenfellDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America.
Andrew J TatemWorldPop, School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom.
Elisabeth Zu Erbach-SchoenbergWorldPop, School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-5315-4041
Cje MetcalfDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0003-3166-7521
Amy WesolowskiDepartment of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0001-6320-3575

Funding

Human mobility models to forecast disease dynamics and the effectiveness of public health interventionsR01AI160780 · NIAID · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI CUMMINGS, DEREK A, WESOLOWSKI, AMY · 2021 to 2025
$3.3M
Disease Emergence and Elimination: Using Mobility Data to Inform Spatial Disease DynamicsDP2LM013102 · NLM · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI WESOLOWSKI, AMY · 2018 to 2018
$2.5M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI160780NLM NIH HHS DP2 LM013102
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Human travel is one of the primary drivers of infectious disease spread. Models of travel are often used that assume the amount of travel to a specific destination decreases as cost of travel increases with higher travel volumes to more populated destinations. Trip duration, the length of time spent in a destination, can also impact travel patterns. We investigated the spatial patterns of travel conditioned on trip duration and find distinct differences between short and long duration trips. In short-trip duration travel networks, trips are skewed towards urban destinations, compared with long-trip duration networks where travel is more evenly spread among locations. Using gravity models to inform connectivity patterns in simulations of disease transmission, we show that pathogens with shorter generation times exhibit initial patterns of spatial propagation that are more predictable among urban locations. Further, pathogens with a longer generation time have more diffusive patterns of spatial spread reflecting more unpredictable disease dynamics.

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Cell Phone UseCommunicable DiseasesComputational BiologyComputer SimulationDisease OutbreaksEpidemicsGeographic Information SystemsHumansModels, BiologicalModels, StatisticalNamibiaPopulation DensitySpatio-Temporal AnalysisTime FactorsTravelUrban Population

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PMID34375331
PMCPMC8378725

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