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Ascending Stair Evacuation – effects of fatigue, walking speed & human behaviour

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Author

Editor

  • Karen Boyce

Summary, in English

Field study of evacuation upwards long stairs, ascending evacuation, in two different buildings, 48 meters and 109 meters high. Measuring walking speed along the stair slope and vertical speed. Presenting values for different percentiles of the studied population. The importance of not using the same value for walking speed for different stairs since the design of the stairs has a strong impact, and that the vertical speed ought to be considered as well.

Publishing year

2015

Language

English

Pages

161-172

Publication/Series

Human Behaviour in fire : 6th International Symposium

Document type

Conference paper

Publisher

Interscience Communications Ltd

Topic

  • Civil Engineering

Conference name

International symposium on Human Behaviour in Fire, 2015

Conference date

2015-09-28 - 2015-09-30

Conference place

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Status

Published

Research group

  • Evacuation
  • Thermal Environment Laboratory

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 978-0-9933933-0-3