TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1997//
TI  - Predicting the Evacuation Capability of Mobility-Impaired Occupants
JO  - Fire technology
A1  - Rubadiri, Lindiwe
A1  - Ndumu, Divine T.
A1  - Roberts, John P.
SP  - 32
EP  - 53
VL  - 33
IS  - 1
N2  - 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.<p />
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SN  - 0015-2684
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1015318311881
ID  - ref1
ER  -