Experimental Assessment on the Moving Capabilities of Mobility-Impaired Disabled

To take into account reasonably the safety requirements of the disabled on emergency evacuation in the design, usage, management and emergency response of public places, the authors of this paper organized on-site experiments for 100 disabled individuals (40 people with no supporting tools, 20 people using a single crutch and 40 people two crutches) and 17 healthy people at a subway station in Beijing. The experiments were designed to measure the unimpeded free walking speed of the participants during horizontal and stair ascending/descending movement, and to assess the possible impact of passage width on movement speed. Based on the results of the tests, the authors systematically analyzed the speed variation patterns with disability grade, gender and passage width. The validity of the value of an important parameter for evacuation safety design in the prescribed fire codes in mainland China, the width of a single stream of people, is assessed. Finally the results of the experiments are compared with that from other researches to identify the similarities and differences between them.

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  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0925753511003420
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission of Elsevier. From a special issue: First International Symposium on Mine Safety Science and Engineering 2011
• Authors:
  • Jiang, C. S.
  • Zheng, S. Z.
  • Yuan, F
  • Jia, H. J.
  • Zhan, Z. N.
  • Wang, J. J.
• Publication Date: 2012-4

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Appendices; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 974-985
• Serial:
  • Safety Science
  • Volume: 50
  • Issue Number: 4
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0925-7535
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/09257535

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Building codes; Emergencies; Evacuation; Gender; Mobility; Persons with disabilities; Speed; Stairs; Subways; Walking
• Uncontrolled Terms: Public spaces
• Geographic Terms: Beijing (China)
• Subject Areas: Highways; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Security and Emergencies; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01365533
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 20 2012 12:18PM