An Experimental Data-Set on Pre-school Children Evacuation

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/68407700:21720/17:00306475

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10694-016-0643-x" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10694-016-0643-x</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10694-016-0643-x" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10694-016-0643-x</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

An Experimental Data-Set on Pre-school Children Evacuation

Original language description

This study presents an experimental data-set describing movement and behaviours of pre-school children. Data is presented together with detailed information about the evacuation procedure and the data collection methods, in order to enable a comprehensive interpretation of the results and to enhance the understanding of pre-school children evacuation. Data was collected during two semi-announced evacuation drills conducted in the same pre-school institution in Prague, Czech Republic, in 2013. The experiments involved a total of 188 children aged from 3 to 6 years; two age groups of children are distinguished: Junior children (aged 3-4 years) and Senior children (aged 5-6 years). The presented data-set consists of travel speeds on horizontal and vertical escape routes (stairs), pre-evacuation times, and total evacuation times. The travel speeds of Junior children on a horizontal plane ranged from 0.69 m/s to 1.33 m/s. Higher speeds of Junior children were observed on an internal straight staircase (mean 0.57 m/s) than on an external straight staircase (mean 0.34 m/s). For Senior children, a mean travel speed equal to 0.56 m/s was found on external spiral staircases. Good agreement is observed between the observed travel speeds and the results reported in the literature. This corroborates that the main variables impacting the movement and the self-rescue abilities of children are age and the configuration of the escape route. The observed pre-evacuation times were longer in classrooms with Junior children (mean value 46 s) than in classrooms with Senior children (mean value 20 s). The total evacuation times ranged from 81 s to 186 s, depending on the location of the classroom and the evacuation route.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

20101 - Civil engineering

Project

<a href="/en/project/LO1605" target="_blank" >LO1605: University Centre for Energy Efficient Buildings – Sustainability Phase</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Fire Technology

ISSN

0015-2684

e-ISSN

1572-8099

Volume of the periodical

53

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

25

Pages from-to

1509-1533

UT code for WoS article

000404163400002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85009495990