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Author
Murosaki, Y. | Hayashi, H. | Nishigaki, T.
Title
Effects of Passage Width on Choice of Egress Route at a T-Junction in a Building.
Coporate
Kobe Univ., Japan Taisei Corp., Japan
Book or Conf
Human Behavior in Fire. International Symposium, 1st. Proceedings. August 31-September 2, 1998, Textflow Ltd., Northern Ireland, Belfast, Northern Ireland, Shields, J., Editors, 593-600 p., 1998
Keywords
human behavior | performance based codes | fire safety | egress | evacuation | exits | occupants | luminescence | experiments
Identifiers
assumptions regarding openness-seeking characteristic and light-seeking characteristic; correlation between passage width and wide passage selection rate; selection tendencies when narrow passages are made brighter