- Author
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Pauls, J.
- Title
- Evacuation and Other Movement in Buildings: Some High-Rise Evacuation Models, General Pedestrian Movement Models and Human Performance Data Needs.
- Coporate
- Jake Pauls Consulting Services in Building Use and Safety, Silver Spring, MD
- Book or Conf
- Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics 2003 International Conference, 2nd. Proceedings. August 20-22, 2003,
CMS Press, London, England,
Greenwich, UK,
Galea, E. R., Editors,
75-88 p.,
2003
- Keywords
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evacuation
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people movement
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human response
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human behavior
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human performance
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egress
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high rise buildings
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office buildings
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emergencies
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panic
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stairways
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codes
- Identifiers
- modeling high-rise office building eacuations; graphical models of evacuation strategies; merging behavior in evacuations; ellipse models of pedestrian movement; relationships among density, speed and flow; movement characteristics depicted for a passageway; cultural factors; deference behavior; crowd crush; demand and flow; handrails; population characteristics