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Distance-Keeping: Influence of the StreetScape (Dist-KISS)

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Key facts

  • Disease

    COVID-19

  • Start & end year

    2020

  • Funder

    Volkswagen Stiftung

  • Principal Investigator

    Prof Dr and Prof Dr-Ing Judith Verstegen, Christian Kray

  • Research Location

    Germany

  • Lead Research Institution

    Universität Münster

  • Research Priority Alignment

    N/A

  • Research Category

    Epidemiological studies

  • Research Subcategory

    Impact/ effectiveness of control measures

  • Special Interest Tags

    N/A

  • Study Type

    Non-Clinical

  • Clinical Trial Details

    N/A

  • Broad Policy Alignment

    Pending

  • Age Group

    Not Applicable

  • Vulnerable Population

    Not applicable

  • Occupations of Interest

    Not applicable

Abstract

This project focuses on the question how the streetscape and potential interventions in it influence physical distancing compliance. The project team will develop and open source agent-based model of pedestrian physical distancing behavior, calibrate it with user experiments in an immersive virtual environment, and run it for various city streetscapes. The model may serve as a tool for planning and ex-ante evaluation of policy interventions in the streetscape targeting to minimize the spread of the COVID-19 disease.