Evacuation Behaviors under the Corridor and Stair Width Variations in Evacuation Experiments

Abstract

The aims of this study are to verify the effecting factors in evacuation behavior under the corridor and stair width variation in evacuation experiments at university education facilities. To achieve these purposes, the present conditions of university education facilities were analyzed, and the evacuation experiment settings were established under different width of corridor and stairs. After the experiments, we asked the effecting variables to the evacuation behaviors under the variation of corridor, stair width and density of evacuee. The results of this study are as follows ; First, we found 3 main factors which affecting the evacuation behaviors ; environmental factors on building conditions, psychological factors on evacuee's characteristics and personal factors on evacuee's physical conditions. Second, the environmental factors such as the location of stairs for evacuation, recognition of wayfinding in fire condition are mainly affects the evacuation behaviors, but evacuee behaviors have little relations with fire extinguishing facilities and personality.

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“…For designing of evacuation safety, Dong Koo Suh et al (2010) [8] derived the Korean characteristics in evacuation behaviors after analyzing the walking speed at the time of group formation during evacuation. Jung Soo Lee et al (2012) [9] analyzed the influence of evacuating density, which is dependent on width of corridor and stairway, over evacuating behaviors and analyzed the relationships among variables influencing psychological factors. The study concluded that the most influential factor was found to be rather cognitive than physical.…”