Predicting the evacuation capability of mobility-impaired occupants

Fire Technology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 32-53

  Rubadiri, Lindiwe ^a   Ndumu, Divine T ^a   Roberts, John P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Empiric models; Evacuation; Evacuation performance index; Mobility impaired occupants

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIRE PROTECTION; HANDICAPPED PERSONS;

ESCAPE ROUTE DESIGNS; EVACUATION PERFORMANCE INDEX; MOBILITY IMPAIRED OCCUPANTS;

FIRE ALARM SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030710778     PISSN: 00152684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1015318311881     Document Type: Article

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