Occupants Emergency Behaviour in Turkey

Nese Çakici Alp () and Gülen Çağdaş ()
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Nese Çakici Alp: Kocaeli University
Gülen Çağdaş: Istanbul Technical University

A chapter in Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics 2012, 2014, pp 1123-1133 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The design of a building should protect occupants against attacks and other threats such as fires and earthquakes. In order to develop more effective designs, environmental factors and occupant characteristics should be examined thoroughly. Human populations have many differences in respect of physiologic, anatomic, behavioral and anthropometric factors, meaning that every society has its own characteristics. Those differences occur due to the interaction of genetic and environmental factors, and the cultural living standards of the society. A survey was conducted of the occupants of two different office buildings to determine the behavioural characteristics behavior and dispersion of Turkish occupants under emergency conditions. Survey responses were analyzed using SPSS statistical software. The dispersion behaviour of Turkish participants was compared with data from the USA and UK, to understand cultural behavioral differences. This is significant as the first study of emergency human behavior in Turkey. However, many more building designs and occupant groups need to be analyzed to provide comprehensive guidelines.

Keywords: Fire safety; Emergency behavior; Behavioral character analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-02447-9_92

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