Floors served

Advanced mode also allows you to define a group of elevators where not all elevators serve all floors. For example, in a building there may be a group of four elevators, but only one serves the basement. Select the Floors Served tab if this option is required. This feature should not be used to model express zones, which are defined in Building Data. This is because, unless using destination control, passengers will by default take the next car in the group to depart travelling in their direction. So, low-rise passengers will get into the high-rise lifts, and vice versa.

To indicate that the elevator serves the floor with a front entrance, enter f. For a rear entrance, enter r. If the elevator has both front and rear entrances on the same floor, enter fr.

Not all dispatching algorithms in Elevate can manage rear entrances. For passengers to use the rear entrances, the appropriate inputs need to be set in Passenger Data, Advanced mode.

Caution! If not all the elevators serve all the floors, then a person may press a hall call button, and have their call answered by an elevator which does not serve their destination. As a default, Elevate assumes that the person will get into the car, travel to the nearest floor to their destination, and then walk the rest of the way. Generally, a better solution is to use destination control; as the passenger registers their call at the landing, the system knows to send a car that serves the destination.