Instant COVID-19 Diagnostic Devices on the Go to Improve Transportation Safety

Public health can impact transportation significantly. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is one of such serve cases, which has resulted in a 96% reduction in air travelers from April to July 2020. Instant early detection of coronavirus on the go can prevent the wide spread of COVID-19 in public transportation vehicles, thus improving transportation health and safety. Therefore, this project aims to develop an “on-the-Go” COVID-19 quantitative diagnostic microdevice integrated with reverse transcription–LAMP (RT-LAMP) for instant early detection of COVID-19 in public transportation vehicles to improve transportation safety.

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $112500
• Contract Numbers:

  69A3551747128

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Managing Organizations:

  Center for Advancing Research in Transportation Emissions, Energy, and Health

  Texas A&M Transportation Institute
  College Station, TX  United States  77843
• Project Managers:

  Li, Wen-Whai

  Bard, Jennifer

  Tavakoli, Hamed

• Performing Organizations:

  University of Texas at El Paso

  El Paso, TX  United States 
• Principal Investigators:

  Li, XiuJun

• Start Date: 20210201
• Expected Completion Date: 20230731
• Actual Completion Date: 0
• USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers Program
• Source Data: 05-40-UTEP

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Biomedical engineering; Communicable diseases; COVID-19; Detection and identification technologies; Diagnosis; Portable equipment; Public health; Public transit; Testing equipment; Transportation safety; Vehicles
• Subject Areas: Public Transportation; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01762703
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Center for Advancing Research in Transportation Emissions, Energy, and Health
• Contract Numbers: 69A3551747128
• Files: UTC, RIP
• Created Date: Jan 26 2021 2:57PM