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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