Waiting time in emergency evacuation of crowded public transport terminals

Safety Science

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 844-857

  Chow, W K ^a   Ng, Candy M Y ^a  

^a Department of Building Services Engineering   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

BuildingEXODUS; Numerical simulation; SIMULEX; Waiting time index

Indexed keywords

AIR TRANSPORTATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; SAFETY ENGINEERING; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

BUILDINGEXODUS; EMERGENCY EVACUATION; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; SIMULEX; WAITING TIME INDEXES;

EMERGENCY TRAFFIC CONTROL;

AIRPORT; ARTICLE; BUILDING; CHINA; CROWDING; EMERGENCY; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MODEL; MOTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME; TRAVEL;

EID: 43949142461     PISSN: 09257535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2007.01.015     Document Type: Article

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