- Author
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Kady, R. A.
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Davis, J.
- Title
- Impact of Exit Route Designs on Evacuation Time for Crawling Occupants.
- Coporate
- Old Dominion Univ., Norfolk, VA
Auburn Univ., AL
- Journal
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Journal of Fire Sciences,
Vol. 27,
No. 5,
481-493,
September 2009
- Keywords
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escape means
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impact
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evacuation time
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occupants
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Life Safety Code
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exit signs
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methodology
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experiments
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evacuation
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people movement
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time
- Identifiers
- exit route; crawling; occupant characteristics; distance between the exit access and the exit; function of the occupants; type and number of obstructions; type of hazard; single route movement; efficient route selection; user-defined route; nearest distance route selection; 18 subjects (9 males and 9 females) within the 19-29 age stratum; Civilian American and European Surface Anthropometry Resources (CAESAR); mean crawling evacuation times (in seconds) for straight and indirect routes; individual evacuation time data for crawling in an indirect route