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Assignment formulation for the Elevator Dispatching Problem with destination control and its performance analysis

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  • Ruokokoski, Mirko
  • Sorsa, Janne
  • Siikonen, Marja-Liisa
  • Ehtamo, Harri

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This paper studies the Elevator Dispatching Problem arising in destination controls. In many of the presented methods to the problem a routing aspect is not considered; decision variables specify only request-to-elevator assignments and the service order of the requests is determined by applying a heuristic rule called the collective control principle. However, quality of this approach is rarely investigated. In this paper the approach is compared with a formulation defining explicitly the elevator routes. The average waiting time as well as average journey time are used as objective functions in the comparisons. Computational experiments with the former objective function on random instances arising during light and normal traffic conditions indicate that both approaches very often produce the same solution while with the latter one the situation is the opposite. Some well-known traffic patterns are also analyzed to identify cases in which the optimal solutions of these approaches are equal.

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  • Ruokokoski, Mirko & Sorsa, Janne & Siikonen, Marja-Liisa & Ehtamo, Harri, 2016. "Assignment formulation for the Elevator Dispatching Problem with destination control and its performance analysis," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 252(2), pages 397-406.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ejores:v:252:y:2016:i:2:p:397-406
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2016.01.019
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    1. Tanaka, Shunji & Uraguchi, Yukihiro & Araki, Mituhiko, 2005. "Dynamic optimization of the operation of single-car elevator systems with destination hall call registration: Part II. The solution algorithm," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 167(2), pages 574-587, December.
    2. Mirko Ruokokoski & Harri Ehtamo & Panos M. Pardalos, 2015. "Elevator dispatching problem: a mixed integer linear programming formulation and polyhedral results," Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, Springer, vol. 29(4), pages 750-780, May.
    3. Tanaka, Shunji & Uraguchi, Yukihiro & Araki, Mituhiko, 2005. "Dynamic optimization of the operation of single-car elevator systems with destination hall call registration: Part I. Formulation and simulations," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 167(2), pages 550-573, December.
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    1. Janne Sorsa, 2019. "Real-time algorithms for the bilevel double-deck elevator dispatching problem," EURO Journal on Computational Optimization, Springer;EURO - The Association of European Operational Research Societies, vol. 7(1), pages 79-122, March.

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