- Author
- Purser, D.
- Title
- Dependence of Modeled Evacuation Times on Key Parameters and Interactions.
- Coporate
- Hartford Environmental Research, Hertfordshire, UK
- Book or Conf
- Fire Safety Science. Proceedings. Ninth (9th) International Symposium. International Association for Fire Safety Science (IAFSS). September 21-26, 2008, Intl. Assoc. for Fire Safety Science, Boston, MA, Karlsruhe, Germany, Karlsson, B., Editors, 353-364 p., 2008
- Keywords
- fire safety | fire science | evacuation time | evacuation | human behavior | human factors engineering | human response | egress | computer simulation | office buildings | shopping centers | high rise buildings | people movement | sensitivity analysis | validation | stairways | computation | flow rate
- Identifiers
- performance-based design; response patterns; merge ratio; Pre Travel Activity Time (PTAT); single rectangular retail enclosure; multi-enclosure building (up to 10-storeys served office building); sensitivity analysis for single enclosure case; 99th percentile evacuation time predictions using three methods; multi-enclosure building evacuation simulations; movement on stairs and merging behavior in GridFlow