Building Commuting Flows for an Agent Based Disease Spreading Simulation System Based on Aggregated Information

Hung-Jui Chang, Wei-Ping Goh, Shu-Chen Tsai, Ting-Yu Lin, Chien-Chi Chang, Mei-Lien Pan, Da-Wei Wang, Tsan-Sheng Hsu

2023

Abstract

In the kernel of an agent-based disease-spreading simulation system, the key factor is the commuting flows of students and workers during weekdays, which gives the movement of people between their residents and offices/schools. During commuting, people who lived in different areas mixed, which increases the spatial spreading of the virus temporally. It is difficult to extract the exact flow from data such as the census. However, small-scale survey examples and aggregated information, such as the size of schools and dormitories and transportation utilization, are known. Using the above, together with information on transportation routes and public transits, in this paper, we give a method based on the well-known flow conservation principle to construct a commuting flow in Taiwan. Validations are given to show such constructed data to fairly describe the real flow by observing our simulation system’s behaviors against what happened in previous pandemics.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Chang H., Goh W., Tsai S., Lin T., Chang C., Pan M., Wang D. and Hsu T. (2023). Building Commuting Flows for an Agent Based Disease Spreading Simulation System Based on Aggregated Information. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: SIMULTECH; ISBN 978-989-758-668-2, SciTePress, pages 303-310. DOI: 10.5220/0012085000003546

in Bibtex Style

@conference{simultech23,
author={Hung-Jui Chang and Wei-Ping Goh and Shu-Chen Tsai and Ting-Yu Lin and Chien-Chi Chang and Mei-Lien Pan and Da-Wei Wang and Tsan-Sheng Hsu},
title={Building Commuting Flows for an Agent Based Disease Spreading Simulation System Based on Aggregated Information},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: SIMULTECH},
year={2023},
pages={303-310},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012085000003546},
isbn={978-989-758-668-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: SIMULTECH
TI - Building Commuting Flows for an Agent Based Disease Spreading Simulation System Based on Aggregated Information
SN - 978-989-758-668-2
AU - Chang H.
AU - Goh W.
AU - Tsai S.
AU - Lin T.
AU - Chang C.
AU - Pan M.
AU - Wang D.
AU - Hsu T.
PY - 2023
SP - 303
EP - 310
DO - 10.5220/0012085000003546
PB - SciTePress