Public transportation and infectious diseases

Big cities become overcrowded in the world. Public transportation includes various features as environmental, economic and social. On the other hand, public transport requires the establishment of certain rules and complies by beneficiaries. The most important one is Respect. For example; behaviors when getting in and off vehicles, inside station and vehicle. Among these, infectious diseases have highest risk level (due to Risk Precedence Number). Especially, Upper Respiratory Diseases have high frequencies according to RPN. Up to now, there is no application of infectious disease scanning (detector) for public transport vehicles. Therefore, the world public should be supported by educative, stimulating studies and regional based cultural approaches, such as the use of masks, if they are present and can be transmitted by the respiratory tract, before public transportation uses. This is also an indication of respect for people and society. Regards, Hakan N. Öztürk