Individual space–time activity-based modelling of infectious disease transmission within a city

This paper provides an example of the application of an individual space–time activity-basedmodel (ISTAM) to the simulation of the transmission of infectious disease in Eemnes, a city inThe Netherlands. Four questions were addressed: (i) how to build the whole population at thecity level, (ii) how to build the structure of the activity bundles for the city, (iii) how to assigndaily activity patterns to each individual, and (iv) how to simulate within-AB transmission.The model was calibrated and examples of simulation results such as dynamics of thepopulation during a whole day, infection distribution and network analysis are presented