Linear Programming Formulation of the Elevator Trip Origin-destination Matrix Estimation Problem

Juha-Matti Kuusinen, Mirko Ruokokoski, Janne Sorsa, Marja-Liisa Siikonen

2013

Abstract

Elevator group control dispatches elevators to passengers’ calls in a dynamic environment where new calls constantly emerge. At the moment of making a dispatching decision, it is not known when and at which floors new passengers will register new calls, what is the number of passengers waiting behind these and existing calls, and what are their destinations. Robust dispatching decisions require that future passenger traffic is forecast based on the realized passenger flow in a building. The problem is that this flow cannot be directly measured. It can, however, be estimated by finding the passenger counts for the origins and destinations of every elevator trip occurring in a building. An elevator trip consists of successive stops in one direction of travel with passengers inside the elevator. We formulate the elevator trip origin-destination matrix estimation problem as a minimum cost network flow problem. We also present a branch-and-bound algorithm for finding all solutions to the problem and study its performance based on numerical experiments.

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Kuusinen J., Ruokokoski M., Sorsa J. and Siikonen M. (2013). Linear Programming Formulation of the Elevator Trip Origin-destination Matrix Estimation Problem . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES, ISBN 978-989-8565-40-2, pages 298-303. DOI: 10.5220/0004338502980303


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@conference{icores13,
author={Juha-Matti Kuusinen and Mirko Ruokokoski and Janne Sorsa and Marja-Liisa Siikonen},
title={Linear Programming Formulation of the Elevator Trip Origin-destination Matrix Estimation Problem},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES,},
year={2013},
pages={298-303},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004338502980303},
isbn={978-989-8565-40-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES,
TI - Linear Programming Formulation of the Elevator Trip Origin-destination Matrix Estimation Problem
SN - 978-989-8565-40-2
AU - Kuusinen J.
AU - Ruokokoski M.
AU - Sorsa J.
AU - Siikonen M.
PY - 2013
SP - 298
EP - 303
DO - 10.5220/0004338502980303