Passenger elevators: Ideal performance of an
elevator installation will provide: Minimum
waiting time, comfortable acceleration, rapid
transportation, smooth, rapid breaking,
automatic level at landing and unloading at all
stop
The elevator also needs to provide:
Quick and quiet doors operation,
floor status, quite and safe operation
of all mechanical equipment and
reliable emergency and security
equipment as also pleasant car
atmosphere.
Principal
componentes: Car
cables,
counterweights,
hoistway, rails,
penthouse and pit.
Control equipment division: Drive
motion, Operation control and
Supervisory control
Equipment selection: The
selection of the elevators
requires severals factors as:
Adequate elevator service,
economic and the
arquitectural integration of
spaces.
Design criterial: Internal and average
waiting time, handling capacity, travel
time
Average lobby time: The average time spent
between arriving to the lobby and leaving their car.
Handling capacity: The maximum number of passenger that can be
handled in certain period.
The average time between departure of cars on the lobby.
Registration time: Waiting time after car is registered
Round trip time: The average time
require to make a round trip.
Travel time: The average time spent by passengers from the
moment they arrive in the lobby to the moment they leave
the car at the upper floor
Zone: Group of floors, considered as a unit with respect to elevator service.
Interval and average waiting
time: A car would be waiting
at the lower terminal on the
riders arrival.
Handling capacity:
Frequency or interval in
which car appears at the
main building lobby is one
of the two factor that
determine the passenger
capacity of the elevator
system.
The only factor that
determine the handling
capacity are passengers
load and frequency of
loading.
Travel time: The sum of the lobby
waiting time plus the travel time to a
median floor stop.