Predicting the evacuation capability of mobility-impaired occupants

被引：27

作者：

Rubadiri, L

Ndumu, DT

Roberts, JP

机构：

[1] Univ of Central Lancashire, Preston, United Kingdom

来源：

FIRE TECHNOLOGY | 1997年 / 33卷 / 01期

关键词：

evacuation; empiric models; evacuation performance index; mobility-impaired occupants;

D O I：

10.1023/A:1015318311881

中图分类号：

T [工业技术];

学科分类号：

08 [工学];

摘要：

Evacuation models have generally failed to provide adequate mechanisms for predicting the evacuation capability of mobility-impaired occupants, particularly with regards to predicting the effects of different escape route designs on such occupants' evacuation performance. This paper briefly reviews empiric evacuation models and presents a new procedure for predicting the evacuation capability of mobility-impaired occupants. Predictions that result from our procedure are compared to recorded times from observed hotel evacuations.

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页码：32 / 53

页数：22