LIU Haiping, XIAO Yao
Nanjing Institute of City & Transport Planning Co., Ltd., Nanjing 210000, Jiangsu Province, China

Abstract： Since the outbreak of the Coronavirus Disease 2019, the urban public transportation service has encountered unprecedented challenges. As an important part of urban public transportation, bus service must not only provide necessary travel services for urban residents continuously but also effectively control the crowd to minimize virus transmission during the epidemic. By learning the indoor virus transmission through the droplets in the air, this paper analyzes the main influencing factors of virus transmission inside bus. Based on the characteristics of bus operation and management, the paper identifies seven control indicators for bus service during epidemic control and prevention. Finally, the paper proposes the bus service management during the recovery period of epidemic in several aspects: reducing the number of susceptible people on the bus, preventing the occurrence of infected passengers on the bus, shortening the exposure time on the bus, and improving bus ventilation.

Keywords： bus service; operation and management; COVID-19; virus transmission; epidemic control and prevention; response strategies