An Agent-Based Simulation Model to Evaluate Contacts, Layout, and Policies in Entrance, Exit, and Seating in Indoor Activities Under a Pandemic Situation

Islam, Tariqul; Jain, Saurabh; Chen, Yijie; Chowdhury, Bijoy Dripta Barua; Son, Young-Jun

doi:10.1109/tase.2021.3118008

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“…From the perspective of interior layout design, Cheshmehzangi (2021) stated that the outbreak of COVID-19 may have great impacts on the building system design, building engineering and building solutions, which promotes designers to reconsider innovative design strategies and density design of buildings. Islam et al (2022) used an agentbased model to simulate the relationship between room layout and seating arrangements in indoor spaces and people's exposure risk during the COVID-19 pandemic, and found that building design solutions that maintain appropriate social distances can significantly reduce the possibility of exposure risk. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, we should reconsider the design and operation of buildings to reduce the health risks that may arise from the buildings themselves (Awada et al, 2021).…”

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Impacts of COVID-19 on construction project management: a life cycle perspective

Jin

et al. 2022

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PurposeThe impacts of COVID-19 on construction projects have attracted much attention in the construction management research community. Nevertheless, a systematic review of these studies is still lacking. The purpose of this paper is to systematically analyze the impacts of COVID-19 on the different stages of a project life-cycle, and comprehensively sort out the epidemic response measures adopted by project participants. In addition, the study also attempts to explore the challenges and opportunities faced by project management practitioners under the context of COVID-19.Design/methodology/approachThis study comprehensively demonstrates the systematic review process of COVID-19 related research in the construction industry, systematically summarizes the research status of the impact of COVID-19 on construction projects, and defines the strategies to deal with COVID-19 in project management; and through the visualization research, determines the current key research topics and future research trends.FindingsThis study identifies 11 construction activities in the project management life cycle that are affected by COVID-19 and finds that the COVID-19 epidemic has the greatest impact on construction workers, construction standards, construction contracts and construction performance. The study further summarizes the six main epidemic countermeasures and mitigation measures taken within the construction industry following the arrival of the epidemic. In addition, the results of this study identify opportunities and future trends in intelligent construction technology, rapid manufacturing engineering and project management in the construction industry in the post-epidemic era through literature results, which also provide ideas for related research.Practical implicationsCOVID-19 has brought severe challenges to society. It is of great significance for the future sustainable development of the construction industry to identify the impact of COVID-19 on all phases of the project and to promote the development of coping strategies by project stakeholders.Originality/valueFirst of all, there is little study comprehensively reviewing the impacts of COVID-19 on the different stages of construction projects and the strategies to deal with the negative impacts. In addition, from a life cycle perspective, the used articles in this study were grouped into different categories based on project stages. This promotes an integrated and comprehensive understanding of historical studies. Moreover, on the basis of a comprehensive review, this paper puts forward future research directions to promote the sustainable development of the construction sector.

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Impacts of COVID-19 on construction project management: a life cycle perspective

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“…In the case of spatial optimization constrained by physical distancing, Stoll (2022), for instance, offers an idea of seating groups of various sizes in a limited seating space such as in a cinema, while ensuring sufficient empty seats between each group to optimize the number of cinema visitors to minimize the possibility of spreading the virus between groups. Meanwhile, Islam et al (2021) implemented physical distance in a simulation model by considering the dynamic changes in the diameter of a person's location during interaction with the diameter of another one's location. Hence, to create numeracy tasks with a physical distancing context, prospective teachers can also consider scientific aspects behind this context which complement the geometrical aspects directly derived from this context, which are mostly found in the posed tasks in this study.…”

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Prospective teachers’ design of numeracy tasks using a physical distancing context

2022

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Physical distancing, which is widely practiced limiting the spread of COVID-19, is recognized to contain mathematical thoughts that can be harnessed as a context for prospective teachers’ practices of mathematical problem posing. The goal of this study is to investigate the profile of mathematical tasks posed by prospective mathematics teachers using the context of physical distancing that meets the criteria of numeracy tasks. Data were collected from 66 mathematical tasks posed by thirty-three prospective teachers at a public university in Surabaya, Indonesia, attending an assessment course of numeracy based on a problem-posing task. To analyze, the posed tasks were first identified as solvable or unsolvable tasks and then further categorized into the domains of the level of context use and the level of cognitive processes. Results show that the level of context use embedded in the posed tasks varies from zero to first order, with only a few of the posed tasks being coded as having second-order context. Regarding the levels of cognitive processes, most of the posed tasks reach the level of understanding, with only a small number of reasoning tasks identified. Interestingly, all the tasks coded to contain second-order context are classified as reasoning tasks. Some implications regarding designing numeracy tasks using physical distancing and interventions in teacher education related to numeracy task design are discussed.

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“…So far, applications of modified crowd models have been extended to pandemic-related investigations in the contexts such as boarding and alighting of passengers in train stations ( Sun et al, 2021 ), boarding and alighting policies of airlines ( Islam et al, 2021b ), pedestrian traffic on university campuses and in academic buildings ( Castro and Ford, 2021 , Romero et al, 2020 ), foot traffic in shopping centres and supermarkets ( Tong et al, 2021 , Xiao et al, 2021 , Xu and Chraibi, 2020 ), and religious gatherings ( Al-Shaery et al, 2021 ). These applications have predominantly employed variations of social force pedestrian model ( Bouchnita and Jebrane, 2020 , Derjany et al, 2021 , Harweg et al, 2021 , Islam et al, 2021a , Si and Fang, 2021 , Tong et al, 2021 , Xiao et al, 2022 , Xiao et al, 2021 ), although this has not been a universal feature of pandemic-related simulation studies in crowd dynamics and other agent-based modelling paradigms such as those of cellular automata have been reported too ( Li and Yin, 2021 ).…”

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Crowd dynamics research in the era of Covid-19 pandemic: Challenges and opportunities

Haghani

2022

Safety Science

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An Agent-Based Simulation Model to Evaluate Contacts, Layout, and Policies in Entrance, Exit, and Seating in Indoor Activities Under a Pandemic Situation

Cited by 11 publications

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Impacts of COVID-19 on construction project management: a life cycle perspective

Impacts of COVID-19 on construction project management: a life cycle perspective

Prospective teachers’ design of numeracy tasks using a physical distancing context

Crowd dynamics research in the era of Covid-19 pandemic: Challenges and opportunities

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