Building safety and human behaviour in fire: A literature review

M Kobes, I Helsloot, B De Vries, JG Post - Fire Safety Journal, 2010 - Elsevier
The most crucial aspect of a building's safety in the face of fire is the possibility of safe
escape. An important precondition is that its fire safety facilities enable independent and …

Emergency evacuation of people with disabilities: A survey of drills, simulations, and accessibility

M Hashemi - Cogent Engineering, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
A natural or man-made disaster may destabilize the structure of a building and endanger the
lives of its occupants. Evacuating occupants in the shortest possible time is the first reaction …

Engineering data

SMV Gwynne, KE Boyce - SFPE handbook of fire protection engineering, 2016 - Springer
This chapter is an updated version of the previous chapter “Evacuation Timing” that
appeared in the fourth edition of the SFPE Handbook. This new version of the chapter …

[PDF][PDF] Toward creating a database on delay times to start evacuation and walking speeds for use in evacuation modeling

RF Fahy, G Proulx - … symposium on human behaviour in fire, 2001 - researchgate.net
The development and use of evacuation models requires the collection of specialized
humanbehavior data. Not all of the data necessary to fully predict or model human behavior …

Discovering worst fire scenarios in subway stations: A simulation approach

L Zhang, X Wu, M Liu, W Liu, B Ashuri - Automation in Construction, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper develops a systematic hybrid approach that integrates Available Safe Egress
Time (ASET), Required Safe Egress Time (RSET), numerical simulation, and Multi-Attribute …

Human behaviour during evacuation of primary schools: Investigations on pre-evacuation times, movement on stairways and movement on the horizontal plane

GN Hamilton, PF Lennon, J O'Raw - Fire Safety Journal, 2017 - Elsevier
Children are a vulnerable group in society and less is known about their characteristics
during evacuation than that of adults. This may lead to fire safety design of child centric …

Estimating the impact of residents with disabilities on the evacuation in a high-rise building: A simulation study

J Koo, YS Kim, BI Kim - Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory, 2012 - Elsevier
In this paper, we study how seriously residents with disabilities affect the evacuation of other
residents in a 24-story high-rise building environment through an agent-based simulation …

Principles for Monte Carlo agent-based evacuation simulations including occupants who need assistance. From RSET to RiSET

A Tinaburri - Fire Safety Journal, 2022 - Elsevier
A few modelling approaches are available to assess the egress of people who need
assistance to evacuate, since both physical and cognitive aspects should be considered. In …

A review on the role of functional limitations on evacuation performance using the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health

O Bukvic, G Carlsson, G Gefenaite, B Slaug… - Fire technology, 2021 - Springer
This sco** review addresses the role of functional limitations on evacuation performance
of adults in public buildings. Although this topic has been addressed in evacuation research …

Experimental investigation of pedestrian evacuation using an extra-long steep-slope evacuation path in a high altitude tunnel fire

Y Zhang, Z Yan, H Zhu, Y Shen, Q Guo… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper presents outcomes of a field experiment involving a random sample of
pedestrians evacuating from a newly-constructed long tunnel at high altitude through an …