hotel corridor live load

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hotel corridor live load
on a typical over-night hotel, rectangular in shape with rooms on each side of the building and a long corridor down the middle, which design load should be used for the corridor?
(a) 40 psf - private rooms and corridors serving them
or
(b) 100 psf - public rooms and corridors serving them
the rooms are individual private rooms.  however, the corridors are public areas where anyone can access.  also, keep in mind, these corridors would be the main method of exit should there ever be an emergency.
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i say 40psf unless there is a conference room or something similar served by that corridor.  that being said i always design for 100psf (ibc 2003) for corridors.  i am usually using the corridor walls as bearing walls so not difficult to get 100psf capacity.
i think 100 psf.  it's a common area.  
100psf due to fire escape
what would be an example of a 40 psf corridor if a corridor serving private rooms is not?
i'm with jechols.
if this isn't asce 7-05's "private rooms and corridors serving them" = 40 psf then i don't know what is!?!
a corridor in a house or the actual unit itself.  that's how i define it.  
swivel63, i think the op's case clearly meets it also, but it's a free country!  if somebody wants to design for 100 psf, then so be it.  i sure as heck wouldn't, though.
this issue was discussed recently on a hotel project. the precaster also confirmed that the corridor is 40 psf ll, unless there is a conference room off of it. the area around the stairs and elevator was 100 psf since this is also considered a public area.
are we talking about a hallway that have that is common to unit owners or a corridor inside of a unit?  i've always seen it done by multiple eor's and also pt vendors as 100 psf.  or actually 80 in the hvhz section of the fbc 2001.  
swivel63, a "house" isn't an applicable structure under the ibc.  it would fall under the irc.
i would say 40 psf as a minimum unless there are other public rooms along the corridor length -then 100 psf.