TY - JOUR PY - 2014// TI - Human factors in evacuation simulation, planning, and guidance JO - Transportation research procedia A1 - Hofinger, Gesine A1 - Zinke, Robert A1 - Künzer, Laura SP - 603 EP - 611 VL - 2 IS - N2 - Evacuation research shows growing interest in human factors and psychology. Before, humans were mostly modelled as homogeneous, without individual emotion, motivation or physical needs. Human factors had mainly been taken into account as physical characteristics or space requirements. In this paper, we give examples of relevant human factors from the literature and our own field research. Human factors include physical, cognitive, motivational and social variables. As yet, there is no validated set of variables most relevant for safe and fast evacuation. Models for classifying human factors from other domains are introduced for use in future research.
Language: en
LA - en SN - 2352-1465 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trpro.2014.09.101 ID - ref1 ER -