Armstrong, Jason, Koolhof, Iain, Ozcakir, Ozge, Pepper, Craig, Roberts, Shelley, Lebbin, Paul, Bennett, James, Brown, Clive, Mase, Sundari, Gearhart, Shannon, Gwynne, Steve ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2758-3897, Uyhelji, Hilary and Tvaryanas, Anthony (2026) Aviation infectious risk and safety: a collaborative program for modeling infectious disease transmission in air travel. Technical Report. United States Department of Transportation, National Transportation Library, Washington, DC. (doi:10.21949/1529730)

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Abstract

The Aviation Infectious Risk and Safety (AIRS) program addresses the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) recommendation for stronger federal leadership and coordination on communicable disease transmission in air travel. Led by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), AIRS integrated The Boeing Company, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, National Research Council Canada, and other interdisciplinary partners to develop Travel Risk In Pandemics (TRIP-X), a modular, simulation-based tool estimating disease transmission risk in air travel. This commentary describes how TRIP-X filled GAO-identified gaps and highlights procedural enablers and challenges of multinational, intergovernmental, and industry collaboration: shared problem framing, iterative development, stakeholder engagement, and cross disciplinary trust building. TRIP-X offers a reproducible, operational decision support platform for evaluating mitigation strategies and informing policy. TRIP-X produces FAA-owned infection risk estimates intended to support Safety Risk Management, policy development, and aviation pandemic preparedness.

Item Type:	Monograph (Technical Report)
Additional Information:	This publication and all Office of Aerospace Medicine technical reports are available in full text from the Civil Aerospace Medical Institute’s publications website and at the National Transportation Library’s Repository & Open Science Access Portal.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	pandemics, air travel, public health preparedness, safety risk management, risk assessment
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD61 Risk Management Q Science > Q Science (General) Q Science > QA Mathematics Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Engineering & Science Faculty of Engineering & Science > School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences (CMS)
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Last Modified:	04 Sep 2026 12:52
URI:	https://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/54337

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