FASt

Today's concept of elevatros cannot improved anymore concerning the important parameters such as required space, traffic performance, wait and travel times, etc. If a higher transportation capacity is required, this always implies higher space requirements and thus increases the overall costs of a building. In particular for high buildings, the efficiency of today's elevators drops significantly. The goal of the project was the development and simulation of a new traffic concept, which could reduce the space requirements while keeping constant the transportation capacity. In addition, other aspect like drive assembly (in particular a linear motor), guidance, light weight construction, as well as user intefaces were taken into consideration.