TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2023//
TI  - Evacuation dynamics of heterogeneous crowds involving individuals with different types of disabilities
JO  - Safety science
A1  - You, Yayun
A1  - Ye, Rui
A1  - Fang, Zhiming
A1  - Ren, Xiangxia
A1  - Xie, Shaocong
A1  - Huang, Peng
A1  - Yu, Liping
A1  - Yu, Tao
A1  - Yan, Jiamu
SP  - e106297
EP  - e106297
VL  - 168
IS  - 
N2  - In this paper, the movement experiment of mixed disabled group including visual disabilities, hearing disabilities, physical disabilities, mental disabilities, intellectual disabilities and people without disabilities is conducted to analyze the movement characteristics in the corridor. The results show that mental and intellectual disabilities have a higher global velocity than the rest of the crowds. The density range of the mixed disabled group (0.48-2.25 m−2) is narrower than that of the elderly group (0.27-2.64 m−2) in the analysis of fundamental diagram. In the same density range, the differences in velocity and specific flow between two groups are 0.00 ± 0.09 m/s and 0.04 ± 0.11 (m∙s)-1, respectively; the specific flow of the mixed disabled group is increases by (3.84 ± 10.67) % compared to the elderly group. Further analysis shows that evacuation time of the mixed disabled group is inversely proportional to the exit width, the same relationship as for the elderly group, with the curve below that of the elderly group; the flow of the mixed disabled group is greater than that of the elderly group. The spatial distribution of nearest neighbor for the mixed disabled group presents an elliptical shape; with increasing density, the shape of the spatial distribution tends to be circular. For wheelchair users and other crowds, the area of the nearest neighbor spatial distribution decreases as the exit width decreases. However, the area of wheelchair users is larger than that of other crowds. The findings of this study are hoped to be a guide for pedestrian safety management and engineering egress design.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0925-7535
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2023.106297
ID  - ref1
ER  -