Cohorting to Isolate Asymptomatic Spreaders: An Agent-Based Simulation Study on the Mumbai Suburban Railway

Alok Talekar (Google Inc.), Sharad Shriram (Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru), Nidhin Vaidhiyan (Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru), Gaurav Aggarwal (Google Inc.), Jiangzhuo Chen (University of Virginia), Srini Venkatramanan (University of Virginia), Lijing Wang (University of Virginia), Aniruddha Adiga (University of Virginia), Adam Sadilek (Google Inc.), Ashish Tendulkar (Google Inc.), Madhav Marathe (University of Virginia), Rajesh Sundaresan (Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru & Strand Life Sciences), Milind Tambe (Google Inc.)

Abstract

This paper studies cohorting in public transit systems and its usefulness in mitigating disease transmission. The Mumbai suburban railway system is used as a case study.