Communicable Disease Preparedness: Airline Cabin Inflight Ventilation Assessment

The Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA’s) Office of Aerospace Medicine needs to quantify disease transmission risks during the gate-to-gate travel segment, considering various risk factors and controls, to support a 2025 tri-agency safety risk assessment in FY25. This project builds on a prior project (Communicable Disease Preparedness: M&S Framework for Analyzing Cabin Health Hazards), where Boeing developed a risk assessment M&S tool using behavioral data and ventilation data from airports, jet bridges, and aircraft cabins collected by National Research Council Canada. However, prior data collection was limited to aircraft at the gate. To address a U.S. Government Accountability Office recommendation, this project will gather ventilation data for off-gate portions under operational conditions, completing the required data acquisition.

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $821,600.00
• Sponsor Organizations:

  Federal Aviation Administration Office of Aerospace Medicine

  800 Independence Ave., SW
  DC, Washington  United States  20591
• Managing Organizations:

  Federal Aviation Administration

  800 Independence Avenue, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20591
• Performing Organizations:

  Federal Aviation Administration Aerospace Medical Research and Safety Assurance Division

  Bldg. 13 Room 302
  6500 S. MacArthur Blvd
  Oklahoma City, OK  United States  73169
• Principal Investigators:

  Tvaryanas, Anthony

• Start Date: 20250203
• Expected Completion Date: 20250915
• Actual Completion Date: 0
• USDOT Program: Aeromedical Research
• Subprogram: aviation safety

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aircraft cabins; Communicable diseases; Risk assessment; Ventilation systems
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01947938
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Federal Aviation Administration
• Files: RIP, USDOT
• Created Date: Mar 4 2025 2:25PM