Citation

Rubadiri L, Ndumu DT, Roberts JP. Fire Technol. 1997; 33(1): 32-53.

Affiliation

Department of Built Environment, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, PR1 2HE, UK

Copyright

(Copyright © 1997, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1023/A:1015318311881

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Evacuation models have generally failed to provide adequate mechanisms for predicting the evacuation capability of mobility-impaired occupants, particularly with regards to predicting the effects of different escape route designs on such occupants' evacuation performance. This paper briefly reviews empiric evacuation models and presents a new procedure for predicting the evacuation capability of mobility-impaired occupants. Predictions that result from our procedure are compared to recorded times from observed hotel evacuations.