- Author
- Alvord, D. M.
- Title
- Status Report of Escape and Rescue Model. Interim Report.
- Coporate
- American Institute of Architects Foundation, Washington, DC
- Sponsor
- National Bureau of Standards, Washington, DC Health and Human Services, Washington, DC
- Report
- NBS GCR 83-432, June 1983, 39 p.
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Contract
- DA 2037
- Keywords
- board and care homes | escape | rescue | evacuation time | fire drills | simulation
- Abstract
- This report focuses on the Escape and Rescue Model, a deterministic discrete-event simulation model for the emergency evacuation of board and care homes. It is of an interim, introductory nature and not intended as a final report. Part A is an ovrview of the model, describing its capabilities, input requirements, basic framework, and permissible resident types, as well as some future directions the model may take. Part B contains a brief description of a recent survey of board and care homes in which many fire drills were performed, followed by a somewhat more detailed discussion of the utilization of the survey data to calibrate and validate the simulation model. Finally, two example simulation runs appear in order to illustrate the aforementioned validation as well as to provide representative simulation output.