Citation

Jo A, Sano T, Ikehata Y, Ohmiya Y. Transp. Res. Proc. 2014; 2: 10-18.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Elsevier Publications)

DOI

10.1016/j.trpro.2014.09.003

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This paper presents the characteristics of pedestrian movement around doors connected to corridors. We focused on the flow rates through a door connected to a corridor to verify the evacuation safety for a performance-based design. In full scale evacuation experiment, when the corridor connected to a door was crowded, the flow rate at the door decreased. Furthermore, the differences between the experimental results and those from multi-agent pedestrian simulator were investigated to examine the validity of the simulation.

Language: en

Keywords

Evacuation; Crowds; density of corridor; evacuation experiment; flow rate; simulation; Evacuation behavior