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Volume 15: Issue 1
Analysis of movement of persons with disabilities during evacuation by lift
Authors:
Martin Szénay Department of Building Physics, Institute of Architectural Engineering Faculty of Civil Engineering, Technical University of Košice, Vysokoškolská 4 042 00 Košice, Slovak Republic

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Martin Lopušniak Department of Building Physics, Institute of Architectural Engineering Faculty of Civil Engineering, Technical University of Košice, Vysokoškolská 4 042 00 Košice, Slovak Republic

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Pages:
209–220
Online Publication Date:
Apr 2020
Publication Date:
01 Apr 2020
Article Category:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1556/606.2020.15.1.20
Keywords:
Evacuation by lift; Mobility-impaired person; Time of movement; Lift; Evacuation
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Abstract

Lifts are indispensable for the evacuation of mobility-impaired people from buildings in case of emergency. It is necessary to quantify the movement parameters of these people and describe the entire process using a suitable algorithm. The aim of the research was to quantify the times and speeds of movement for a person using a wheelchair and for an injured person. An experiment in situ was used. During the experiment, arrivals at the lift, cabin entries, and exits were monitored. The results include the times and speeds of a mobility-impaired person's movement. The experiments showed that a person using a wheelchair was slower than an injured person. The results can be used to expand computational models to account for the possibility of using lifts for evacuation.

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