- Author
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Kobes, M.
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Oberije, N.
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Groenewegen, K.
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Helsloot, I.
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deVries, B.
- Title
- Hotel Evacuation at Night: An Analysis of Unannounced Fire Drills Under Various Conditions.
- Coporate
- Netherlands Institute for Safety, The Netherlands
VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
- Book or Conf
- Human Behavior in Fire. International Symposium, 4th. Proceedings. July 13-15, 2009,
Interscience Communications Ltd., London, England,
Cambridge, UK,
219-230 p.,
2009
- Keywords
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human behavior
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evacuation
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evacuation time
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human response
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hotels
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fire drills
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escape means
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fire tests
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way finding
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scenarios
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occupants
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education
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stress (physiology)
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smoke
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exit signs
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validation
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decision making
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refuge
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hotels
- Identifiers
- (escape) route signs; Behavioural Assessment and Research Tool (BART); 83 evacuation experiments in Hotel Veluwemeer, located near the Dutch city of Amersfoort; 93 experiments in a virtual hotel which is a replica of the Hotel Amersfoort Veluwemeer; influence of smoke on human fire response performance; influence of low placed exit signs on human fire response performance; influence of personal features on human fire response performance; Building Evacuation Team (BET); exit choice and route choice; non-standard behavior; personality of participants; perception of situation and stress level