State-of-the-art high-rise building emergency evacuation behavior

Ning Ding, Tao Chen, Yu Zhu and Yang Lu

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2021, vol. 561, issue C

Abstract: Emergency evacuation in case of an emergency is a crucial problem in high-rise buildings, as many occupants are in a limited amount of space. To improve building safety design and evacuation strategies, it is essential to understand how individuals behave during an evacuation in high-rise buildings. This paper surveys the recently available literature on evacuation in high-rise buildings with the following objectives: (1) to review the high-rise building evacuation experiment methods; (2) to review the wayfinding and impact factors in horizontal evacuation; and (3) to review the individual and crowd behaviors in vertical evacuation. The review highlights the application of the virtual reality technology in evacuation experiments and the two-side effect of the group behavior in high-rise buildings. Future research should focus on quantitative pre-evacuation behavior study, the elevator’s assistant function, and the impact of group relations on evacuation. As the height of high-rise buildings continues to increase, individual characteristics, such as mobility issues and fatigue, warrant further study.

Keywords: High-rise building evacuation; Evacuation experiment; Evacuation behavior; Fire evacuation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2020.125168

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