{"id":407657,"date":"2021-03-30T08:36:34","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T03:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=407657"},"modified":"2021-03-30T08:54:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T03:24:00","slug":"social-distancing-in-flight-seat-assignments-can-reduce-covid-19-spread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/social-distancing-in-flight-seat-assignments-can-reduce-covid-19-spread\/","title":{"rendered":"Social distancing in flight seat assignments can reduce Covid-19 spread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new research conducted to minimise the risk of secondary infections aboard has used two models to help solve the airplane seating assignment problem because COVID-19 has been shown to spread on airplanes by infected passengers. <\/p>\n<p>The models can lower the transmission risk of COVID-19 more so than the strategy of blocking the middle seats, given the same number of passengers. The results of the study were published in the INFORMS journal Service Science. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Blocking the middle seat on an airplane may provide limited benefit in reducing the risk of transmission of COVID-19. Rather, other health protocols are better supported at preventing the transmission of the virus,&#8221; said Sheldon Jacobson, Founder Professor of computer science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new research conducted to minimise the risk of secondary infections aboard has used two models to help solve the airplane seating assignment problem because COVID-19 has been shown to spread on airplanes by infected passengers. The models can lower the transmission risk of COVID-19 more so than the strategy of blocking the middle seats, given the same number of passengers. The results of the study were published in the INFORMS journal Service Science. &#8220;Blocking the middle seat on an airplane may provide limited benefit in reducing the risk of transmission of COVID-19. Rather, other health protocols are better supported [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}