An Experimental Study on the Correlation Between “Attachment to Belongings” “Pre-movement” Time

Marco D’Orazio () and Gabriele Bernardini ()
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Marco D’Orazio: Università Politecnica delle Marche, DICEA Department
Gabriele Bernardini: Università Politecnica delle Marche, DICEA Department

A chapter in Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics 2012, 2014, pp 167-178 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Many studies show that people carry out activities not directly connected with the evacuation after hearing a fire alarm. In this study we analyze the behavior of two groups of students in a Faculty of Engineering, following the activation of a fire alarm. The study shows that in these types of buildings, due to the fact that students are involved in activities with electronic devices, “pre-movement times” are very high and are strongly influenced by users’ attachment to their belongings. In particular this study allows the distribution of pre-movement time and the speed of people during the evacuation to be calculated.

Keywords: Evacuation; Fire safety; Pre-movement time; Movement-time; Public buildings (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-02447-9_12

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