A brief review on vertical transportation research and open issue

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Book of Proceedings of the International Joint Conference-CIO-ICIEOM-IIE-AIM (IJC 2016), "XX Congreso de Ingeniería de Organización", "XXII International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, "International IISE Conference 2016, "International AIM Conference 2016". Donostia-San Sebastian (Spain), July 13-15, 2016Vertical transportation refers to the movements of people in buildings. High-rise buildings have emerged as a common construction nowadays. In such buildings, the vertical transportation is extremely difficult to manage, specially, when the people arrive at the same time at specific floors wanting to travel to other floors. To solve such situations, the installation of elevator group control systems (EGCS) is a usual practice. EGCS are used to manage multiple elevators in a building to efficiently transport passengers. EGCSs need to meet the demands by assigning an elevator to each landing call while optimizing several criteria. This paper reviews the most relevant contributions in vertical transportation industr