How change of public transportation usage reveals fear of the SARS virus in a city

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Title:	How change of public transportation usage reveals fear of the SARS virus in a city
Authors:	王國英;Wang, Kuo-Ying
Contributors:	地球科學學院大氣科學學系
Keywords:	Adolescent;Adult;Aged;Aged, 80 and over;Analysis;Biology;Child;Child, Preschool;Computer Science;Disease Outbreaks;Epidemics;Fatalities;Fear;Fear - psychology;Female;Hospitalization;Hotels & motels;Humans;Infant;Infant, Newborn;International economic relations;Local transit;Male;Mathematics;Medicine;Middle Aged;Models, Statistical;Outbreaks;Pandemics;Public opinion;Public transportation;Quarantine;Risk perception;SARS Virus - pathogenicity;SARS Virus - physiology;Schools;Severe acute respiratory syndrome;Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome - economics;Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome - epidemiology;Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome - psychology;Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome - transmission;Social and Behavioral Sciences;Taiwan - epidemiology;Transportation - economics;Transportation - methods;Transportation industry;Typhoons;Viruses
Date:	2014-03-19
Issue Date:	2026-04-21 13:55:54 (UTC+8)
Publisher:	Public Library of Science;United States: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Abstract:	摘要： The outbreaks of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic in 2003 resulted in unprecedented impacts on people's daily life. One of the most significant impacts to people is the fear of contacting the SARS virus while engaging daily routine activity. Here we use data from daily underground ridership in Taipei City and daily reported new SARS cases in Taiwan to model the dynamics of the public fear of the SARS virus during the wax and wane of the SARS period. We found that for each reported new SARS case there is an immediate loss of about 1200 underground ridership (the fresh fear). These daily loss rates dissipate to the following days with an e-folding time of about 28 days, reflecting the public perception on the risk of contacting SARS virus when traveling with the underground system (the residual fear). About 50% of daily ridership was lost during the peak of the 2003 SARS period, compared with the loss of 80% daily ridership during the closure of the underground system after Typhoon Nari, the loss of 50-70% ridership due to the closure of the governmental offices and schools during typhoon periods, and the loss of 60% daily ridership during Chinese New Year holidays. 其他題名： PLoS One 出版者： United States: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 出版日期： 2014-03-19 出處： PLoS ONE, 2014-03, Vol.9 (3), p.e89405- 資源來源： Agricultural & Environmental Science Collection 版權： COPYRIGHT 2014 Public Library of Science 版權： 2014 Kuo-Ying Wang. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License. 版權： 2014 Kuo-Ying Wang 2014 Kuo-Ying Wang 識別號： ISSN: 1932-6203 識別號： EISSN: 1932-6203 識別號： DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0089405 識別號： PMID: 24647278
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