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A study of on the occupant movement speed during emergency evacuations for the evacuation safety assessment of domestic buildings  

Youn, Ho-Ju (Korea Institute of Construction Technology)
Hwang, Eunkyung (Korea Institute of Construction Technology)
Publication Information
Journal of the Society of Disaster Information / v.9, no.3, 2013 , pp. 332-338 More about this Journal
Abstract
Recently in Korea, in order to ensure evacuation safety within buildings, reviewing and evacuation assessment using computer simulations has been performed from the planning and design stages. Since the results from the assessment mainly depends on the initial values of input elements, it is important to establish element specific data. Nevertheless evacuation related experiments and research are still insufficient to apply overseas standards to domestic conditions. This study intended to conduct a experiment on evacuation movement speed by age as part of element-specific data construction for domestic occupant movement speed. After analyzing domestic and overseas studies on evacuation movement speed, we conducted the experiment of evacuation movement speed for 134 people. Then, by carrying out a comparative analysis of the results of the movement speed obtained from the experiment with overseas movement speeds, we followed the validation procedures of the experimental results under domestic evacuation conditions. The data derived from the experiment is expected to serve as a basis for the movement speed of domestic evacuation safety assessment.
Keywords
evacuation; evacuation experiment; walking speed; evacuation models; evacuation safety; assessment;
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