Abstract
To support building traffic planning, we developed a pedestrian flow simulator. Our simulator has a detailed user behavior model of elevator that simulates queuing and operating buttons at elevator halls. The model also can simulate a user behavior of an elevator with a destination floor reservation system (DFRS). The simulator enables qualitative and quantitative evaluation of building traffic planning effectively using 3D graphics of pedestrian movements and some indices of the elevator usage. In one example building, this simulator shows that the installation of the DFRS system can reduce the rate of people waiting for 60 second or more by 11 points.
