- Author
- Kuligowski, E. D.
- Title
- Elevators for Occupant Evacuation and Fire Department Access.
- Coporate
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Book or Conf
- Strategies for Performance in the Aftermath of the World Trade Center. CIB-CTBUH Conference on Tall Buildings. Proceedings. Task Group on Tall Buildings: CIB TG50. CIB Publication No. 290. October 20-23, 2003, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Shafii, F.; Bukowski, R.; Klemencic, R., Editors, 193-200 p., 2003
- Keywords
- World Trade Center | high rise buildings | elevators (lifts) | emergencies | evacuation | fire fighters | risk assessment | egress
- Identifiers
- World Trade Center (110-story-high) Towers, Manhattan, New York, September 11, 2001; firefighter lifts
- Abstract
- This paper will present a study of the potential for elevators to reduce occupant egress time and fire department access time for fires in tall buildings. Potential reductions in egress and access times will be compared for some specific cases where times for current procedures are available. The paper will review past research in elevator usage and the structure of existing models for elevator evacuation. From this review, the assumptions and limitations of the current elevator and egress models will be discussed, and future plans for improvement of the existing egress prediction techniques will be presented.