Traffic Analysis

Daily Traffic Profiles

The traffic patterns of hotels and residential buildings is examined in this revisiting of Strakosch’s analysis. by Dr. Marja-Liisa Siikonen, Janne Sorsa, Juha-Matti Kuusinen and Henri Hakonen Traffic patterns for...

Passenger Batch Arrivals at Elevator Lobbies

by Janne Sorsa, Juha-Matti Kuusinen and Marja-Liisa Siikonen - Passenger Batch Arrivals at Elevator Lobbies Abstract A typical assumption in elevator traffic analysis is that passengers arrive at the elevator...

The Impact of Traffic Variations on Elevator Performance

This paper was presented at USA 2012, the ­International Congress on Vertical Transportation ­Technologies and first published in IAEE book Elevator Technology 19, edited by A. Lustig. It is a...

Traffic Analysis Based on the Up-Peak Round Trip Time Method: Why It Works and How It Can Be Improved

This paper was first presented at the 2nd Symposium on Lift & Escalator Technologies in September 2012 (www.liftsymposium.org). It is re-published from the Symposium proceedings with the permission of the...

Lift Performance Time

Performance time is a measure of how long it takes for a lift to travel between two floors, including opening and closing of the doors. Performance time has a major...

Lift Passenger Demand in Office Buildings

The differences between traditional and modern patterns of passenger demand in buildings are compared and discussed. by Dr. Richard Peters, Rory Smith and Elizabeth Evans Abstract The number of passengers...

State-of-the-Art Traffic Analysis

This paper was presented at Lucerne 2010, the International Congress on Vertical Transportation Technologies and first published in IAEE book Elevator Technology 18, edited by A. Lustig. It is a...

Passenger Elevator Service (1920)

The question of how to determine the best elevator service has been a topic of debate since the early 1900s. In 1920, an answer was offered. The question of how...

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