- Author
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Gwynne, S. M. V.
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Boswell, D. L.
- Title
- Pre-Evacuation Data Collected From a Mid-Rise Evacuation Exercise.
- Coporate
- Hughes Associates, Inc., Boulder, CO
- Journal
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Journal of Fire Protection Engineering,
Vol. 19,
No. 1,
5-29,
February 2009
- Keywords
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evacuation
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occupants
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high rise buildings
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people movement
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data analysis
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evacuation time
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stairways
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surveys
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data sets
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human behavior
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egress
- Identifiers
- pre-evacuation time; notification; unannounced evacuation exercise; building information; time of the exercise (i.e., mid-morning); complex was occupied by 825 people; population distribution on each floor; gender distribution; age distribution; emergency fire and earthquake exercises; data collection techniques employed; pre-evacuation times captured on video given stair and floor being used; raw pre-evacuation time data (seconds) derived from video footage; manual observations made on floors 4 and 8