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An Experimental Study on the Correlation Between “Attachment to Belongings” “Pre-movement” Time

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Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics 2012

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Many studies show that people carry out activities not directly connected with the evacuation after hearing a fire alarm. In this study we analyze the behavior of two groups of students in a Faculty of Engineering, following the activation of a fire alarm. The study shows that in these types of buildings, due to the fact that students are involved in activities with electronic devices, “pre-movement times” are very high and are strongly influenced by users’ attachment to their belongings. In particular this study allows the distribution of pre-movement time and the speed of people during the evacuation to be calculated.

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  1. DICEA Department, Università Politecnica delle Marche, via di Brecce Bianche, Ancona, 60131, ITALY

    Marco D’Orazio & Gabriele Bernardini

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    Ulrich Weidmann

  2. Pestalozzi & Stäheli Ingenieurbüro Umwelt Mobilität Verkehr, Basel, Switzerland

    Uwe Kirsch

  3. und Verkehr, Universität Duisburg-Essen Physik von Transport, Duisburg, Germany

    Michael Schreckenberg

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D’Orazio, M., Bernardini, G. (2014). An Experimental Study on the Correlation Between “Attachment to Belongings” “Pre-movement” Time. In: Weidmann, U., Kirsch, U., Schreckenberg, M. (eds) Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics 2012. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02447-9_12

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