The effectiveness of dynamic zoning in multi-car elevator control

In recent years, multi-car elevator (MCE) provided with multi-car per shaft receive attention. By using MCE, it is expected that efficient transportation of passengers with smaller number of shafts and the decrease of elevator setting area in buildings. Therefore, various studies on MCE control have been made so far, and we also have proposed a MCE control method that assign a zone to a car dynamically according to needs. In this study, we discuss the effectiveness of proposal method on MCE controlling through two simulation experiments. In the first experiment, we compare proposal method with single-car elevator (SCE) and other MCE control methods on three evaluation indexes. The other experiment, we examine the effectiveness of an increase in shafts on proposal method.