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An elevator serving 50 stories should count more than one stopping at only 10 stories. A better measure would be total elevator stops but as usual you are stuck
by spikels 12y ago
An elevator serving 50 stories should count more than one stopping at only 10 stories. A better measure would be total elevator stops but as usual you are stuck with the available data - especially difficult to overcome with mult-country data like this.
- candeira 12y agoThe solution would be to count meters of elevator per person.
- jamesaguilar 12y agoOr perhaps person-distance/time or mass-distance/time of capacity?
- candeira 12y agoMass-distance, sure. Time starts becoming a metric of the quality and vintage of the elevators involved, and not of the capacity.
- jedberg 12y agoThat's still not good enough because a tiny one person elevator shouldn't count the same as a massive 30 person elevator.
- spikels 12y agoHilarious! I have had similar discussions - just about different data source.
- raverbashing 12y agoI don't remember a place where a single elevator serves 50 floors I've seen buildings where each elevator (set) covered around 12 floors (+ ground floor). This was for a building with +/- 40 floors
- SeoxyS 12y agoThat's mostly for efficiency. Imagine going on the top floor and having to wait for 10+ stops on the way up. That said, I think split elevators are more common in commercial buildings. I've seen residential skyscrapers have elevators cover all floors. For example, One Rincon Hill in San Francisco has 3 elevators that all cover all 64 floors.
- olalonde 12y agoThe five elevators in my building (Shenzhen) serve all 45 floors and it's a mess. I think I must have spent 10+ minutes waiting for the elevator once.