Title: Editorial JTH 16 –The Coronavirus Disease COVID-19 and implications for transport and health
Abstract: When I took over the editorial duties of Journal of Transport & Health from Professor Jenny Mindell January this year I had not foreseen this first editorial would be written while the world is in such unprecedented state of emergency. To this end, I've asked two Associate Editors of the Journal of Transport & Health, Professor Erel Avineri, Head, Afeka Center for Infrastructure, Transportation and Logistics, Tel-Aviv Academic College of Engineering, and Professor Yusak Susilo, BMK Endowed Professor in Digitalisation and Automation in Transport and Mobility System at the Institute of Transport Studies, the University for Natural Resources and Sciences (BOKU), Vienna, to write a special review of transport and health in relation to the spread of the Coronavirus Disease Covid-19.
Following the global outbreak of the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) generated by the novel human Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, countries across the world are taking measures in order to reduce the effects, or at least to slow it down, in order to better cope with public health and better manage its limited resources. Human-to-human transmissions of SARS-CoV-2 have been described with incubation times between 2-10 days, facilitating its spread via droplets, contaminated hands or surfaces (Kampf et al., 2020). While limited knowledge is available about the SARS-CoV-2 virus, we have some experience with other infectious diseases that might have some similar characteristics.