Upstairs walking speed distributions on a long stairway

Safety Science

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 72-78

  Kretz, Tobias ^a   Grünebohm, Anna ^a   Kessel, Andreas ^a   Klüpfel, Hubert ^b   Meyer König, Tim ^b   Schreckenberg, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b TraffGo HT GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Pedestrians; Stairs; Upstairs; Upwards; Walking speed distributions

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SAFETY ENGINEERING;

SPEED DISTRIBUTIONS; STAIRWAY; UPSTAIRS WALKING;

PEDESTRIAN SAFETY;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; ENDURANCE; GERMANY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEASUREMENT; MOTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PEDESTRIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; WALKING SPEED;

EID: 36749036007     PISSN: 09257535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2006.10.001     Document Type: Article

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