The Impact of Traffic Variations on Elevator Performance

摘要

Performance variation is inherent to elevator dispatching because one of the key inputs to dispatching analysis, the relevant traffic, varies day to day, hour to hour, and even minute to minute. This paper discusses how elevator simulators use traffic patterns, the impact of traffic variation on simulated elevator performance metrics, and shows that, unlike traditional handling capacity calculations, elevator simulation does not automatically "average out" the effects of traffic variability.