Abstract: An elevator system including at least one elevator car mounted for movement in a building to serve the floors therein, and pushbuttons for entering calls for elevator service. Calls for elevator service initiated by the pushbuttons are sequentially displayed in a predetermined order on a display, which also displays the total number of unanswered calls in the system at any instant. In a preferred embodiment, the predetermined order sequentially displays the calls starting with the call associated with the lowest floor, and proceeding upwardly through the building to the highest floor of the building.

Abstract: An elevator system including an elevator car mounted for movement in a building to serve the floors therein. The elevator system includes control apparatus for selecting the service direction in which the elevator car will proceed from a floor it is serving. A display having an array of electrically energizable elements visually indicates the selected up or down service direction by sequentially energizing the elements to provide a predetermined pattern which moves upwardly, or downwardly, through the array, or which causes a predetermined pattern to lengthen in the upward, or downward direction.