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Author
Kady, R. A. | Davis, J.
Title
Effect of Occupant Characteristics on Crawling Speed in Evacuation.
Coporate
Old Dominion Univ., 241 Kaufman Hall, Norfolk, VA Auburn Univ., AL
Journal
Fire Safety Journal, Vol. 44, No. 4, 451-457, May 2009
Keywords
occupants | evacuation | people movement | human behavior | evacuation time | statistics | human response | human performance
Identifiers
evacuation models; crawling speed; ccupant characteristics; body mass index; gender; mean normal walking and crawling speeds (m/s); individual normal crawling speed data; participants' data; test for equal variances and two-sample t-test; general linear model: crawling speed