Assessing the risk of Covid-19 transmission on trains

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The rail industry has been working hard to attract passengers back to rail. RSSB has been undertaking work in the area of crowd simulation to quantify the risk of infection from Covid-19 per average passenger journey. In the article below, we share the preliminary results of our findings and detail what we hope to do with the results and research in the near future.

'From this scenario we estimate that the risk of infection per passenger journey is around 1 in 11,000* journeys using the 0.05% population infection rate for England (from ONS).'