So BeSeCu is carrying out unannounced evacuation drills in multistorey university library buildings around Europe, including Poland, Czech Republic and Turkey, and comparing the results with evacuation data from Brazil and the UK. Were going to compare the data on response time and behaviour. If it varies in different places, that will suggest a need to change how we plan for emergency situations well have to take a much more localised approach.
Galeas interest was triggered by victims responses to a tragic fire in the Daegu underground in Korea. I looked at photographs of the inside of burning carriages, and collaborated with a Korean researcher who interviewed survivors. Most sat around, waiting for instructions from an authority figure. When I presented the findings at a UK conference, it was suggested that my data was irrelevant because that would never happen in the UK. So I started wondering whether people around the world react differently.
Working at Greenwichs Fire Safety Engineering Group, Galea and his team have designed Exodus, a computer modelling system that can simulate how people behave in emergency evacuations, which is used in 33 countries. It was used in the design of Londons O2 arena, Sydneys Olympic stadium, the birds nest arena in Beijing and the Airbus A380.
Now he is adding to the model by analysing data from interviews with survivors of the 7/7 terrorist attacks in London and the Madrid bombings. By studying how people responded on the underground trains and in the stations, we hope to better understand how the perception of risk, reaction to authority figures and interaction with other survivors influences emergency behaviour. The findings will be used to improve computer software so it better reflects how people behave in emergencies and can be more reliable in building design.
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