Stampede Prevention Design of Primary School Buildings in China: A Sustainable Built Environment Perspective

Kefan Xie, Yu Song, Jia Liu, Benbu Liang and Xiang Liu
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Kefan Xie: School of Management, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China
Yu Song: School of Management, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China
Jia Liu: School of Information and Safety Engineering, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan 430073, China
Benbu Liang: School of Management, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China
Xiang Liu: Institute of Finance, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou 510006, China

IJERPH, 2018, vol. 15, issue 7, 1-21

Abstract: In China, crowd stampede accidents usually take place within crowded areas in middle and primary schools. The crowd stampede risk is particularly related to the architectural design such as the staircase design, the layout of crowded places, obstacles, etc. Through the investigation of building design in several primary schools, the relationship between the sustainable layout of crowded places (e.g., toilets, canteens, playgrounds, staircases) and the crowd stampede risk of students are introduced via agent-based simulations. In particular, different experimental scenarios are conducted on stairs in the primary buildings. The evacuation processes are recorded by video camera and spatial stepping characteristics (e.g., foot clearance, step length, mass center, the distance between the mass center and ankle, and etc.) are extracted from the video. Dynamic steady ability is investigated by adopting the margin of stability, quantified by the instantaneous difference between the edge of the base of support and extrapolated vertical projection of the mass center. Based on the sustainable built environment principles and historical data of students, this paper focuses on an in-depth analysis of the staircase design aiming at preventing the crowd stampede risk.

Keywords: stampede prevention; sustainable layout; sustainable built environment; dynamic steady ability; step depth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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