Abstract: A user communicates travel destinations to a transportation system utilizing a human-machine interface having a touch screen with a selection of designations that can be individually selected by touching the screen. For example, a selected designation “Library” is communicated from the human-machine interface to a transportation system control without the user knowing where the library is actually located. The control determines the real locational parameter of the travel destination from a table storage device containing the designations and the associated real locational parameters. The control assigns the desired travel destination, such as a floor, to vehicle, such as an elevator car, with the best travel conditions and informs the user of the assigned vehicle on the touch screen. The information displayed to the user can include a vehicle identification, a travel destination identification, instructions and an indication of the place of boarding.

Abstract: An elevator user creates on a user terminal an individual user program, that is adapted to his needs, for operating the elevator. The user terminal can include a keypad for selecting commands and entering values, and a screen for displaying the command sequence. Depending upon authorization, the user can access the entire command set or only certain commands. The user program is transmitted to a terminal of an elevator control by wireless communication and proceeds to a program control which adds to the user program data required for execution and stores it in a memory. A task manager of the control program initiates the execution of the user program by an interpreter that interprets the program step by step. In the case of elevator-specific instructions such as, for example, travel commands or door opening commands, the interpreter calls up an interface that initiates the further execution by an elevator control.

Abstract: A control device for access and lift operation to a predetermined story in multi-family dwellings or other buildings is provided. Call input devices which may comprise a first input button and a second input button are provided in the upper stories of the building, such as in individual apartments or offices. Upon the processing of a call which has been input by the first input button located at an identified story initially a predetermined destination story and thereafter the identified story are served by the lift. On processing of a call which has been input by the second input button initially the identified story and thereafter the predetermined destination story are served. The call input device may further comprise an identification device to allow automatic lift from an entry story to the story associated with the identified user.

Abstract: An identification system for a lift installation in which a lift user carries with him an information transmitter. The information transmitter communicates individual data, for example the weight of the lift user, to a recognition device, which files the data in a data bank. Lift users without information transmitters, so-called unauthorized travellers, are detected with the aid of a load-measuring device. A comparator compares the weight in a lift cage with the weight identified by means of the information transmitter to verify the identity of the lift user as the user to whom the information transmitter was assigned. In the case of agreement, a release signal issued to a lift control, which dispatches or otherwise permits operation of the lift cage.