- Author
- Purser, D. A.
- Title
- Behavior and Travel Interactions in Emergency Situations and Data Needs for Engineering Design.
- Coporate
- Fire Research Station, Garston, England
- Book or Conf
- Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics 2003 International Conference, 2nd. Proceedings. August 20-22, 2003, CMS Press, London, England, Greenwich, UK, Galea, E. R., Editors, 355-369 p., 2003
- Keywords
- evacuation | people movement | human response | human behavior | human performance | egress | fire protection engineering | time | emergencies | occupants | warning systems | fire alarm systems
- Identifiers
- Available Safe Egress Time (ASET); Required Safe Egress Time (RSET); occupancy types and design behavioral scenarios; design behavioral scenarios and occupancy types (ADB purpose groups); effect of warning system on alarm time; effect of building complexity on evacuation time; classification of fire safety management features and effects on evacuation time; pre-movement time distributions for different design behavioral scenarios, building complexities and fire safety management levels; travel time; suggested pre-times for different design behavioral scenario categories; pre-movement time, walking time and exit flow time interactions and data redundancy