Abstract: By means of the group control the average time losses for the passengers resulting from the waiting time at the floors and the return travel time are minimized. Therefore, the number of entering stops causing a minimum of time losses is determined per elevator car on the basis of calculations. The number of entering stops is stored in monitoring or control counters by means of which the allocation of down hall calls is limited to the number stored for each car. The down hall calls are combined by means of a switching circuit to form groups of chronologically inputted or incoming hall calls of a volume corresponding to the number of hall calls respectively stored in the monitoring or control counter. In the case of an increase in the hall calls, the earliest group of hall calls is first increased and the latest group of hall calls last.

Abstract: With this group control the allocation of elevator cabins or cars to existing storey or floor calls should be timewise optimized and newly arriving storey calls should be immediately allocated. A computer device provided for each elevator computates at each landing or storey, irrespective of whether or not there is present a storey or landing call, from the distance between the storey and the cabin position indicated by a selector, the intermediate cabin stops to be expected within this distance and the momentary cabin load a sum proportional to the time losses of waiting passengers. In this way the cabin load prevailing at the computation time point is corrected such that the expected number of passengers entering and exiting the cabin, derived from the previously ascertained number of entering and exiting passengers, is taken into account for the future intermediate cabin stops.

Abstract: With this group control the allocation of elevator cabins or cars to existing storey or floor calls should be timewise optimized and newly arriving storey calls should be immediately allocated. A computer device provided for each elevator computates at each landing or storey, irrespective of whether or not there is present a storey or landing call, from the distance between the storey and the cabin position indicated by a selector, the intermediate cabin stops to be expected within this distance and the momentary cabin load a sum proportional to the time losses of waiting passengers. In this way the cabin load prevailing at the computation time point is corrected such that the expected number of passengers entering and exiting the cabin, derived from the previously ascertained number of entering and exiting passengers is taken into account for the future intermediate cabin stops. Such loss time sum, also referred to as the servicing cost, is stored in a cost storage or memory provided for each elevator.

Abstract: Rotatably mounted rolls arranged behind one another in a support or carrier element of a roll guide shoe posess different diameters. In this way it is possible to reduce to a minimum the unquiet or jerky travel of a moved, guided portion of the elevator which is caused by flattening of the rolls as a result of longer standstill times of the roll guide shoe.

Abstract: A drive control for transportation systems, especially elevators or the like, improves the stopping accuracy of the elevator cabin at a storey or floor of the building. A reference value transmitter operated by a digital computer produces step-like successive travel curves and displacement path-reference values operatively associated with such travel curves and feedable to a regulation circuit. Connected with the reference value transmitter is a stop initiation device, which during initiating the stop or halting of the elevator, forms from a possible target path produced by the reference value transmitter and a target path corresponding to a target storey a target error.