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Elevator Banking for High Rise Buildings

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  • Bruce A. Powell

    (Westinghouse Research Laboratories, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)

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Elevator service in multistory buildings has been improved by the concept of banking. A building is split into two or more groups of contiguous floors, and each group of floors is served by a different set of elevators. This paper presents an optimization procedure based on dynamic programming for determining good banking arrangements. The algorithm has solved the combinatorial problem of deciding on the number of banks and cars, floor splits, and car speeds that has up to now faced the elevator industry. The algorithm has been reduced to a FORTRAN computer program that requires very little computer time.

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  • Bruce A. Powell, 1975. "Elevator Banking for High Rise Buildings," Transportation Science, INFORMS, vol. 9(3), pages 200-210, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:ortrsc:v:9:y:1975:i:3:p:200-210
    DOI: 10.1287/trsc.9.3.200
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    1. Larrain, Homero & Muñoz, Juan Carlos & Giesen, Ricardo, 2015. "Generation and design heuristics for zonal express services," Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Elsevier, vol. 79(C), pages 201-212.

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