If you want to play around with different elevator algorithms, there’s Elevator Saga where you can code your own.

I stayed at a place once for over a week, they had two elevators, but one of them had a sign on it saying it was out of service the entire time I was staying there. I did wonder at the time if it reverted to a "single elevator" algorithm, or if instead it just ran a kind of degraded "two elevators but one isn't keeping up its end of the bargain" algorithm 😛

Super cool. However I think they are missing a crusial optimizarion strategy. In morning rushhour. More elevators should be dedicated to only going up and never pick anyone up on the way down. And fill up a single dedicated cart for downwards traffic as much as possible to maximise utilisation.

Wow. I always assumed DD systems were significantly superior.

Well, this just makes me want to play Project Highrise again (the spiritual successor to SimTower and Yoot Tower). And sad that they stopped creating new content for it.

Cool article. Thanks for sharing

This is a cool demonstration, especially with the parameters and animations, but man I hate these "made with <3" footers so much. They were everywhere in the 2010s and my hope was that they had died out by now, but apparently not.