- Author
- Kobes, M. | Oberije, N. | Groenewegen, K. | Helsloot, I. | deVries, B.
- Title
- Hotel Evacuation at Night: An Analysis of Unannounced Fire Drills Under Various Conditions.
- Coporate
- Netherlands Institute for Safety, The Netherlands VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
- Book or Conf
- Human Behavior in Fire. International Symposium, 4th. Proceedings. July 13-15, 2009, Interscience Communications Ltd., London, England, Cambridge, UK, 219-230 p., 2009
- Keywords
- human behavior | evacuation | evacuation time | human response | hotels | fire drills | escape means | fire tests | way finding | scenarios | occupants | education | stress (physiology) | smoke | exit signs | validation | decision making | refuge | hotels
- Identifiers
- (escape) route signs; Behavioural Assessment and Research Tool (BART); 83 evacuation experiments in Hotel Veluwemeer, located near the Dutch city of Amersfoort; 93 experiments in a virtual hotel which is a replica of the Hotel Amersfoort Veluwemeer; influence of smoke on human fire response performance; influence of low placed exit signs on human fire response performance; influence of personal features on human fire response performance; Building Evacuation Team (BET); exit choice and route choice; non-standard behavior; personality of participants; perception of situation and stress level