- Author
- Fahy, R. F.
- Title
- EXIT89: An Evacuation Model for High-Rise Buildings - Recent Enhancements and Example Applications.
- Coporate
- National Fire Protection Association, Quincy, MA
- Sponsor
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Contract
- NIST-GRANT-60NANB2D1286
- Book or Conf
- National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE). International Conference on Fire Research and Engineering (ICFRE). Proceedings. September 10-15, 1995, SFPE, Boston, MA, Orlando, FL, Lund, D. P.; Angell, E. A., Editors, 332-337 p., 1995
- Keywords
- fire research | high rise buildings | evacuation | time lag | handicapped | occupants
- Identifiers
- EXIT89; calculating walking speeds; moving the occupants; randomly distributed delay times; adding disabled occupants
- Abstract
- The origin and basic features of EXIT89 have been described in previous papers. This paper will concentrate on a brief discussion of the framework of the model, a description of recent enhancements made to the model and will present example applications of the model that illustrate some of its features. EXIT89 was designed to model the evacuation of a large building with the capability of tracking each occupant individually. The output of this model, in combination with a fire and smoke movement model using the same building layout, can be used to predict the effects of cumulative exposure to the toxic environment present in a structure fire.