When human behavior of evacuation in fires is concerned, the evacuation start time is a very important parameter. Evacuation start time that is affected by many random variables is also a random variable. However, in most of the simulation of evacuation, it's regarded as a constant. It's obviously unreasonable. In this study, evacuation start time is described by adopting normal distribution function and random variable model. A common formula is given by fitting to experiment data to realize quantitative analysis.
Keywords. fires; evacuation start time; random variables; numerical simulation
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How to cite this article
Zhang, H., Liu, C. and Jia, C. (2003). 'Studies of evacuation start time in fires'. SET Proceedings, 2(1), pp. 305-308. https://doi.org/10.65582/set.2003.068
