- Author
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Kady, R. A.
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Davis, J.
- Title
- Effect of Occupant Characteristics on Crawling Speed in Evacuation.
- Coporate
- Old Dominion Univ., 241 Kaufman Hall, Norfolk, VA
Auburn Univ., AL
- Journal
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Fire Safety Journal,
Vol. 44,
No. 4,
451-457,
May 2009
- Keywords
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occupants
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evacuation
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people movement
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human behavior
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evacuation time
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statistics
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human response
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human performance
- Identifiers
- evacuation models; crawling speed; ccupant characteristics; body mass index; gender; mean normal walking and crawling speeds (m/s); individual normal crawling speed data; participants' data; test for equal variances and two-sample t-test; general linear model: crawling speed