- Author
- Gwynne, S. M. V. | Boswell, D. L.
- Title
- Pre-Evacuation Data Collected From a Mid-Rise Evacuation Exercise.
- Coporate
- Hughes Associates, Inc., Boulder, CO
- Journal
- Journal of Fire Protection Engineering, Vol. 19, No. 1, 5-29, February 2009
- Keywords
- evacuation | occupants | high rise buildings | people movement | data analysis | evacuation time | stairways | surveys | data sets | human behavior | 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