Evacuation performance of individuals in different visibility conditions

Building and Environment

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1094-1103

  Jeon, Gyu Yeob ^a   Kim, Ju Young ^b   Hong, Won Hwa ^a   Augenbroe, Godfried ^c  

^a Kyungpook National University   (South Korea)

^b Korea Intellectual Property Office   (South Korea)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Evacuation behavior; Evacuation experiment; Evacuation performance; Eye patch; Handicapped visibility; Travel distance

Indexed keywords

EVACUATION BEHAVIOR; EVACUATION EXPERIMENT; EVACUATION PERFORMANCE; EYE-PATCH; HANDICAPPED VISIBILITY; TRAVEL DISTANCE;

DATA VISUALIZATION; EXPERIMENTS; VISIBILITY;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

METHODOLOGY; SMOKE; TRAVEL DEMAND; VISIBILITY;

EID: 78651467235     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2010.11.010     Document Type: Article

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