elevator wait time function?
From something a little meatheady to something a little nerdy now. (What else would you expect from me?) I recently bought a new apartment in Vancouver. My old apartment had three elevators, but in this one they cheaped out and only bought two. Both buildings have a similar number of units (about 200). It's very clear to me that the increase in wait time going from 3 to 2 is more than 50%, but I'm not sure what the difference actually is.
For the last 48 hours, we've been operating with just one elevator and it's just been a painful experience. Yesterday, the process of taking out the garbage and coming back up to my apartment took 17 minutes. Maybe wait time exponentially increases with elevators going out of service?
In something that is not as easily calculated, people also change their behaviour. You can take the stairs down in our building (fire exit) but not up (you can't gain access to the living floors). So presumably some people are taking the stairs down. Also, I talked to a woman yesterday who goes to work at 8am and as part of her morning plan, actually goes out and presses the elevator call button, then goes back into her apartment to make breakfast and eat it. Behaviour like this must necessarily increase wait time since some non-zero percentage of the time, the elevator comes right away and she isn't there.
For the last 48 hours, we've been operating with just one elevator and it's just been a painful experience. Yesterday, the process of taking out the garbage and coming back up to my apartment took 17 minutes. Maybe wait time exponentially increases with elevators going out of service?
In something that is not as easily calculated, people also change their behaviour. You can take the stairs down in our building (fire exit) but not up (you can't gain access to the living floors). So presumably some people are taking the stairs down. Also, I talked to a woman yesterday who goes to work at 8am and as part of her morning plan, actually goes out and presses the elevator call button, then goes back into her apartment to make breakfast and eat it. Behaviour like this must necessarily increase wait time since some non-zero percentage of the time, the elevator comes right away and she isn't there.