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A BIM-Based Smart System for Fire Evacuation
Future Internet, 2021 Building fires constitute a significant threat that affects property, the environment, and human health. The management of this risk requires an efficient fire evacuation system for buildings’ occupants.
Rania Wehbe, Isam Shahrour
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 ObjectiveClimate-change has brought about more frequent extreme-weather events (e.g., hurricanes, floods, and wildfires) that may require families to evacuate, without knowing precisely where and when the potential disaster will strike.
Annette M. La Greca +2 more
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Looking for Evidence of Public Health's Role for Long-Term Evacuees
Frontiers in Public Health, 2019 Many Canadians have had personal experience of a major emergency or disaster at some point in their lifetime and close to a third of those affected were evacuated from their homes or communities.
Barbara Clow +5 more
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The Negative Dependence of Evacuation Time on Group Size Under a Binding Mechanism
Frontiers in Physics, 2022 This paper initiates the analysis of the relation between evacuation time and group size by applying an extended floor-field cellular automaton model. Multi-speed-agents, a group structure containing leaders and followers, and a local-density-dependent ...
Tianyi Wang, Yu Chen
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A National-Scale Assessment of Population and Built-Environment Exposure in Tsunami Evacuation Zones
Geosciences, 2020 Evacuation zones are a critical tool for mitigating loss of life in tsunami events. In New Zealand, tsunami evacuation zones are implemented by emergency management agencies at regional or sub-regional scales, providing national coverage for populated ...
Ryan Paulik +2 more
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Lessons from the evacuation of the World Trade Center, Sept 11th 2001 for the future development of computer simulations [PDF]
, 2005 This paper provides an overview of the state of the art in evacuation simulations. These interactive computer based tools have been developed to help the owners and designers of large public buildings to assess the risks that occupants might face during ...
C.W. Johnson, Johnson, C.W.
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Transportation Research Interdisciplinary PerspectivesExtreme weather events and other hazardous events often require a range of strategies to safely shelter people, distribute resources, and facilitate recovery efforts.
Thayanne G.M. Ciriaco +3 more
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Learning from Wildfire Disaster Experience in California NICUs
Children, 2020 Wildfires have been affecting California greatly, and vulnerable patients in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) are not exempt. Our aim was to learn how personnel working in NICUs of California hospitals handled issues of neonatal transfer during ...
Amy L. Ma, Ronald S. Cohen, Henry C. Lee
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