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.

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