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Taking into account groups for evacuation analysis
Previous research has provided useful information to qualitatively interpret fundaments of social influence during evacuation. However, this performance needs to be quantified that it can be understood and considered in life safety calculations. We apply a quantitative method for assessing the behavioural cohesion among evacuees i.e. whether individuals respond and move together, as a group. Three evacuation scenarios are analysed: 1) a multimodal station, 2) a sports centre and 3) a library. Results suggested that proximity (visual/verbal contact) could be an important factor but not decisive in the formation of evacuation groups. Social ties and whether occupants share a target and/or an activity before the alarm are also deemed to be important factors. Overall, these results indicate that the proposed method can be used as a priori assessment to determine the presence of evacuation groups in fire safety engineering analyses. ; The authors would like to thank the European Union for the LETS-CROWD project received funding from the Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under the grant agreement Nº 740466.
Taking into account groups for evacuation analysis
Previous research has provided useful information to qualitatively interpret fundaments of social influence during evacuation. However, this performance needs to be quantified that it can be understood and considered in life safety calculations. We apply a quantitative method for assessing the behavioural cohesion among evacuees i.e. whether individuals respond and move together, as a group. Three evacuation scenarios are analysed: 1) a multimodal station, 2) a sports centre and 3) a library. Results suggested that proximity (visual/verbal contact) could be an important factor but not decisive in the formation of evacuation groups. Social ties and whether occupants share a target and/or an activity before the alarm are also deemed to be important factors. Overall, these results indicate that the proposed method can be used as a priori assessment to determine the presence of evacuation groups in fire safety engineering analyses. ; The authors would like to thank the European Union for the LETS-CROWD project received funding from the Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under the grant agreement Nº 740466.
Taking into account groups for evacuation analysis
Cuesta Jiménez, Arturo (author) / Rodríguez Puebla, Karen (author) / Abreu Menéndez, Orlando Víctor (author) / Alvear Portilla, Manuel Daniel (author) / Universidad de Cantabria
2017-01-01
International Conference on "Research and Advanced Technology in Fire Safety", FireSafety 2017, Santander, p.85-99
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
DDC:
690
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