A study of evacuation from large retail stores

Shields, T. J.; Boyce, KE

doi:10.1016/s0379-7112(00)00013-8

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“…However, fire accidents and evacuation experiments have shown that people often use familiar exits instead of more unfamiliar emergency exits [1,2,3]. A familiar exit can be for example the entrance of a building or the ordinary exit.…”

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Influencing Exit Choice in the Event of a Fire Evacuation

Nilsson¹,

Frantzich²,

Wendy³

2008

Fire Saf. Sci.

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Unannounced evacuations were performed in both an office building and a cinema theatre in order to investigate if green flashing lights at exits can influence exit choice. Also studied was how the exits were perceived and the results were interpreted using the theory of affordances. The results indicate that green flashing lights can be used to influence exit choice in the event of a fire emergency. However, the effectiveness of the system seems to depend on the setting, e.g., the type of building. The results suggest that green flashing lights at an emergency exit, if used in an appropriate setting, makes the exit stand out and encourages people to use it.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Influencing Exit Choice in the Event of a Fire Evacuation

Nilsson¹,

Frantzich²,

Wendy³

2008

Fire Saf. Sci.

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“…The flue gas and the detector begin to heat up to the response time of the alarm signal. Based on a review of the relevant research [11][12][13], and combined with statistical analysis of KTV fire accidents over the years, the Calculation formula of response Time t r ,( the time from the heat exchange of flue gas and the detector to sending out an alarm signal when reaching the response temperature) is as followings:…”

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Accurate Assessment of RSET for Building Fire Based on Engineering Calculation and Numerical Simulation

Yan

Han

Li³

2016

MATEC Web of Conferences

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Abstract. In order to obtain the Required Safety Egress Time (RSET) accurately, traditional engineering calculation method of evacuation time has been optimized in this paper. Several principles and fact situations were used to optimize the method, such as detecting principle of the fire detecting system, reaction characteristics of staff being in urgent situation, evacuating queuing theory, building structure and the plugging at the porthole. Taking a three-storey KTV as an example, two methods are used to illustrate the reliability and scientific reasonability of the calculation result. The result is deduced by comparing the error (less than 2%) at an allowable range between two results. One result is calculated by a modified method of engineering calculation method, and the other one is given based on a Steering model of Pathfinder evacuation simulation software. The optimized RSET has a good feasibility and Accuracy.

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“…There have been considerable studies on controlled evacuation experiments to gain data in different locations, such as high-rise apartments, large retail stores, ships, classrooms, and public transport terminals [15][16][17][18]. Data on disabled occupants have also been collected in other experiments [19].…”

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Analysis of Evacuation Efficiency with Congestion Points in Large Sport Facilities

Chiu¹,

Li²,

Shu³

et al. 2015

JCEA

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Abstract:Large leisure activities usually use large sport facilities. There is often no serious problem with people gathering, but both incomplete facilities and negligence of people security manage may court injury or death. The purpose of this study is to analyze crowded nodes and to improve evacuation path use Simulex models. The fastest and safest way to achieve safe egress was then well planned. For turn locations, it was found that fixing the plane angle did not significantly raise the overall exiting efficiency. However, replacing the right angle or other angles with arc angle makes overall exiting moving line more fluent. For multi-to single-directional converging T-junction intersections, modification of turn angle increased the movement fluency, with the higher the modified angle, the higher in fluency. However, changing to round angle did not have as significant effect as expected while gate opening width must be increased to 1.0 m before more significant effects were produced. The results showed that modifying turn angles to 60° produces better improvements.

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A study of evacuation from large retail stores

Cited by 161 publications

References 12 publications

Influencing Exit Choice in the Event of a Fire Evacuation

Influencing Exit Choice in the Event of a Fire Evacuation

Accurate Assessment of RSET for Building Fire Based on Engineering Calculation and Numerical Simulation

Analysis of Evacuation Efficiency with Congestion Points in Large Sport Facilities

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