Lifts for emergency evacuation in apartment buildings

Fire Safety Science

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 439-450

  Sharma, Than Singh ^a   He, Yaping ^b   Mahendran, Mahen ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aged; Apartment building; Disabled; Emergency; Evacuation; Injury; Lift; Multi objective decision Analysis; Panic; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

AGED; APARTMENT BUILDINGS; DISABLED; EMERGENCY; EVACUATION; INJURY; MULTIOBJECTIVE DECISION; PANIC;

APARTMENT HOUSES; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; FIRE HAZARDS; FIRES; HANDICAPPED PERSONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; RESEARCH; RISK ASSESSMENT; STAIRS;

ELEVATORS;

EID: 80455158043     PISSN: 18174299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3801/IAFSS.FSS.9-439     Document Type: Conference Paper

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