Traffic Analysis

Fault Detection Using Learned Traffic Patterns

Plug-and-play fault monitoring systems can make for fast detection of lift faults. To adapt vertical-transportation systems to future demands, the lift industry has identified a need to move from today’s...

Elevators and Social Distancing

Measures to control traffic flow during the pandemic submitted by Elevating Studio Pte. Ltd. This guideline explains the technical aspects of and considerations for using elevators during the COVID-19 pandemic....

Your Lift Journey — How Long Will You Wait?

A study on passenger waiting time preferences yields interesting results. by Caroline Bird, Dr. Richard Peters, Elizabeth Evans and Stefan Gerstenmeyer When passengers start their lift journey, they initially wait...

The Magic Number

This Readers Platform addresses how to determine the volume and type of elevators needed for your building. Picture this: you’ve designed and built a residential building, where tenants come and...

A Systematic Methodology for the Generation of Lift Passengers under a Poisson Batch Arrival Process

by Dr. Richard Peters, Dr. Lutfi Al-Sharif, Ahmad T. Hammoudeh, Eslam Alniemi and Ahmad Salman This paper was first presented at the Fifth Symposium on Lift & Escalator Technologies, www.liftsymposium.org....

Lifts Without Ropes: How Many Shafts and Cars Are Needed?

Your authors establish traffic-design principles and describe dispatching and modeling strategies related to future systems. by Stefan Gerstenmeyer and Dr. Richard Peters This article was first presented at the Fifth...

Elevator Traffic Analysis: Analytical Versus Simulated

The two main classifications of traffic analysis are compared and contrasted, with the work of many experts in the field cited. by Dr. Albert So and Dr. Lutfi Al-Sharif Traffic...

Difficulties in Comparing the Results of Lift-Traffic-Simulations

Difficulties in Comparing the Results of Lift-Traffic-Simulations by Hans M. Jappsen and Olaf Rieke This paper was presented at  USA 2012, the ­International Congress on Vertical Transportation ­Technologies and first...

Deriving Elevator RTT under Incoming Traffic Conditions and a Single Entrance

by Lutfi Al-Sharif, Hasan Algzawi and Ahmad Hammoudeh RTT is the basis for designing elevator systems. There are several different methods (both analytical and numerical) for calculating it. As a...

Performance Analysis

Group Configurations Define Group Efficiency and Performance All groups with large cars are inefficient. During periods of heavy traffic, large cars make many time-consuming stops to distribute and/or collect high...

222 Broadway; photo © John W. Cahill for the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat

TEI Group Repositions Elevators for Major NYC Conversion

ARCHI-TREAD RELOCATING FROM N.J. TO FLORIDA

Archi-Tread Relocating From N.J. to Florida

Entrance to the Victoria Building, which was built in 1945; photo by SnowyBadger for Wikipedia

Halifax Hospital to Get Elevator Replacement, Upgrades

Stationslift Storingen, a website for reporting broken elevators, was created in response to the structural problem by wheelchair user Kasrt Lovers; image courtesy of X.

Out-of-Order Lifts at Dutch Train Stations Leave Wheelchair Users Stranded

FUJITEC EXPLAINS NEW STRATEGY CENTERED AROUND DIGITAL TWIN CONCEPT

Fujitec Explains New Strategy Centered Around Digital Twin Concept