- Author
- Kadokura, H. | Sekizawa, A. | Takahashi, W.
- Title
- Study on Availability and Issues of Evacuation Using Stopped Escalators in a Subway Station.
- Coporate
- Tokyu Research Institute Inc., Japan Tokyo Univ., Japan ING Co. Ltd., Japan
- Book or Conf
- Human Behavior in Fire. International Symposium, 4th. Proceedings. July 13-15, 2009, Interscience Communications Ltd., London, England, Cambridge, UK, 183-194 p., 2009
- Keywords
- human behavior | evacuation | evacuation time | high rise buildings | human response | escalators | subway | smoke movement | simulaiton | experiments | people movement | stairways | case histories | smoke | zone models
- Identifiers
- walking experiment using a stopped escalator; walking speeds; crowd walking speed; path and destination; fire origin points and six fire scenarios; Daegu Metro fire, Korea, February 2003; BRI2002; critical time for safe evacuation by place of fire origin point; trapped passengers; influence of use of escalators for evacuation