- Author
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Shimada, T.
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Naoi, H.
- Title
- Experimental Study on the Evacuation Flow of Crowd Including Wheelchair Users.
- Coporate
- Tokyo University of Science/Akeno Fire Research Institute, Japan
- Journal
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Fire Science and Technology,
Vol. 25,
No. 1,
1-14,
2006
- Keywords
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evacuation
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handicapped
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emergencies
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ergonomics
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stability
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flow coefficient
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experiments
- Identifiers
- wheelchair users from buildings; crowd evacuation flow; "Heart Building Law"; crowd density; width of door; flow of self-moving type wheelchair; stability of crowd flow; able-bodied people and the wheelchair user's movement tracks; comparison of stay space types; flow coefficient decrease by the wheelchair user mixing; various conditions that influence the flow coefficient