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\nThere’s nothing like being stuffed into a cramped, hot airplane cabin to make you feel sick. NSF-funded researchers at Florida State University say passenger movement patterns in these cabins actually can make you sick. In response to...\nThere’s nothing like being stuffed into a cramped, hot airplane cabin to make you feel sick. NSF-funded researchers at Florida State University say passenger movement patterns in these cabins actually can make you sick. In response to the 2014 Ebola outbreak that grounded hundreds of international flights, the FSU-led team set out to better understand the mechanics of how infectious diseases can spread on high-occupancy aircraft.

Using the NSF/NCSA Blue Waters, one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, the team created sophisticated computer simulations. The researchers found that current zoned boarding procedures may play a key role in spreading disease. Exiting a plane moves people quickly through the cabin’s zones minimizing contamination, however, the zones associated with boarding brings people very close to each other and keep them close, which increases the possible transmission of infections. The team feels, a better option to prevent the spread of disease would be a two-zone system where the plane is divided lengthwise, with passengers in each section boarding at random. While this system might sacrifice efficiency, the randomized boarding patterns would help reduce the clustered crowds where infections flourish.

If implemented temporarily during a major epidemic, these procedures could help prevent widespread disease transmission.\n
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