And I suppose he works for Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.
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That depends on whether you want to optimize the system for fast response to calls or for maximum traffic handling capacity. With modern systems, you can program the elevators to behave in different ways depending on the time of day. Morning rush, lunch, evening rush, off-hours, etc.
The elevators in my sixth floor dorm when I lived on campus parked on the first and fifth floors (I worked night security so I got to see idle elevators a lot.) I always just assumed that most trips start on the first floor and go up, or on one of the top three floors and go down - that’s the usage I saw. If that’s the case, then it makes for faster elevator response times. The fifth floor is the middle of the top three floors in that building.
I also used to work nights in a 14 floor apt. building with 4 elevators. Two parked on ground, two parked half way up their runs (but no two runs were the same with odd/even and basement/no basement service). When someone called one, the closest would go to that floor, the other would go to the recently vacated park position. The first would return to the second’s original park position.
I assume that basement and 3 were chosen because 1 and 2 people would be more likely to use the stairs than 3 or basement people
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If you were expecting your relief and knew what floor they would be coming from, you could also use the elevator intercom to creep them out by greeting them. Then if you were creeped out by the person you were replacing, you could punish them for their tricks by recalling the elevator before they got to their floor and make them come back and apologize.
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