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Investigating the representation of merging behavior at the floor-stair interface in computer simulations of multi-floor building evacuations

This paper resulted from the EPSRC funded project HEED (GR/S74201/01, EP/D507790) which was a collaboration between Greenwich, Ulster, Liverpool Universities. The paper demonstrated for the first time the importance of merging behaviours and deference behaviours on stairs in highrise buildings during evacuation. It has contributed to the validation of the commercial software buildingEXODUS increasing its appeal for building design analysis. Questions raised by this work has led to several research projects concerning human factors associated with movement on stairs (USA: NIST, jason.averill@nist.gov; UK, University of Ulster KE.Boyce@ulster.ac.uk; Korea, Kyungpook National University, hongwh@knu.ac.kr).