Research identifies risk factors that affected World Trade Center evacuation
Monday, January 26, 2009 - 11:21
in Psychology & Sociology
Researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health have released findings identifying factors that affected evacuation from the World Trade Center (WTC) Towers on September 11. A research methodology known as participatory action research (PAR) was used to identify individual, organizational, and structural (environmental) barriers to safe and rapid evacuation.