Evacuation in an Underground Space: A Real-Time Investigation of Occupants’ Travel Speed in Clear and Smoked Environments
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
In the paper a very interesting results of the large scale experiment are presented. Those results can be adopted to the others fire safety analyses. The authors give an overviw of the values of the walkong emergency speed in case of fire in road and metro tunnels, as well the walkong speed in smoke filled tunnel.
Author Response
Authors would like to thank the reviewer for the evaluation of our paper.
We inform the reviewer that we have revise the manuscript both on its format (tables, figures, fonts) as well as on English language on several sentences.
Reviewer 2 Report
The author did the experiments on the Occupants Travel Speed in clear and smoked underground space with forty volunteers, which is useful and interesting to the readers. The methodology presented in the manuscript demonstrated that these experiments were well-designed considering various factors during the evacuating process and the necessary recording cameras. Overall this paper is well-written with great innovation and presentation.
The manuscript may need the following minor revision as follows:
(1) It uses commas to represent dots in the numbers, which is not an international standard. For example, 1,15 m/s should be written as 1.15 m/s.
(2) The font size in the tables is relatively too large and the formatting can be improved.
(3) Table 3 can be simplified or removed.
(4) Some figures' formatting can be improved such as Figures 20 & 21.
Author Response
The authors wish to thank the reviewer for the detailed feedback provided on the manuscript, which have definitely contributed improving the manuscript. We have worked on addressing the comments provided. Detailed responses and explanations on the changes made are provided below.
We would like to inform the reviewer that the English format of the paper has been updated.
(1) It uses commas to represent dots in the numbers, which is not an international standard. For example, 1,15 m/s should be written as 1.15 m/s.
The paper has revised and replace all commas (,) from decimal number to dot (.)
(2) The font size in the tables is relatively too large and the formatting can be improved.
The fonts from all tables have been downgraded in order to be consistent with MDPI format.
(3) Table 3 can be simplified or removed.
Table 3 renamed to Table A1 and moved to Appendix section
(4) Some figures' formatting can be improved such as Figures 20 & 21.
Figure 20 & 21 have been improved.
