Case Studies on Evacuation Behaviour in a Hotel Building in BART and in Real Life

Margrethe Kobes (), Nancy Oberijé and Martina Duyvis
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Margrethe Kobes: Netherlands Institute for Safety (NIFV)
Nancy Oberijé: Netherlands Institute for Safety (NIFV)
Martina Duyvis: Netherlands Institute for Safety (NIFV)

A chapter in Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics 2008, 2010, pp 183-201 from Springer

Abstract: Summary BART is the Behavioural Assessment and Research Tool. BART makes use of an interactive, real-time, physics-based virtual environment with realistic 3D visuals and audio. In BART it is possible to face people with the phenomenon fire in a safe way, without being exposed to the extreme health risk of a real fire. The primary objective of the tool in virtual reality (VR) is to generate the information that fire safety engineers have need of for the design of a safe building that complies with actual human behaviour in fires. For the development of the innovative tool first a trial version of BART is developed, which consists of the visualisation of an existing Dutch hotel building. In this paper some case studies on evacuation behaviour in a real hotel building, as well as in a virtual hotel building in BARTtrial, are described. Furthermore some key findings of the earliest trials of behavioural assessment in VR are given.

Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-04504-2_14

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