According to an aspect, there is provided a method for forecasting elevator passenger traffic of an elevator group. The method comprises training (100) a statistical traffic model describing a traffic profile for a specific cycle with historical timestamped origin-destination passenger counts, obtaining (102) timestamped origin-destination passenger counts for a current cycle, generating (104) an elevator passenger traffic forecast based on the trained statistical traffic model and the timestamped origin-destination passenger counts for the current cycle, and outputting (106) the elevator passenger traffic forecast for use by an elevator group control.
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