TY - JOUR A1 - Geoerg, Paul A1 - Berchtold, Florian A1 - Gwynne, Steven A1 - Boyce, Karen A1 - Holl, Stefan A1 - Hofmann-Böllinghaus, Anja T1 - Engineering egress data considering pedestrians with reduced mobility N2 - To quantify the evacuation process, evacuation practitioners use engineering egress data describing the occupant movement characteristics. These data are typically based to young and fit populations. However, the movement abilities of occupants who might be involved in evacuations are becoming more variable—with the building populations of today typically including increasing numbers of individuals: with impairments or who are otherwise elderly or generally less mobile. Thus, there will be an increasing proportion of building occupants with reduced ability to egress. For safe evacuation, there is therefore a need to provide valid Engineering egress data considering pedestrians with disabilities. Gwynne and Boyce recently compiled a series of data sets related to the evacuation process to support practitioner activities in the chapter Engineering Data in the SFPE Handbook of Fire Protection Engineering. This paper supplements these data sets by providing information on and presenting data obtained from additional research related to the premovement and horizontal movement of participants with physical-, cognitive-, or age-related disabilities. The aim is to provide an overview of currently available data sets related to, and key factors affecting the egress performance of, mixed ability populations which could be used to guide fire safety engineering decisions in the context of building design. KW - Disability KW - Egress KW - Evacuation PY - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1002/fam.2736 SN - 0308–0501 SN - 1099-1018 VL - 43 IS - 7 SP - 759 EP - 781 PB - Wiley CY - London, UK AN - OPUS4-48833 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -