Fragmented Project Data
Assumptions, building inputs, and traffic criteria often live across spreadsheets, PDFs, screenshots, and email threads.
Elevator Traffic Analysis & Simulation Software
Elevator traffic analysis and simulation for modern project workflows
VT Planner helps teams run elevator traffic studies with analytical calculation, discrete-event simulation, and structured project records. Define building demand, compare elevator alternatives, and review report-ready outputs in one place.
Built for vertical transportation consultants, manufacturers, contractors, developers, and modernization teams working through real traffic decisions.
- Analytical calculation and discrete-event simulation in one workflow
- Save project context and elevator alternatives under the same building record
- Review metrics, compare scenarios, and keep run history traceable
One workflow
Bring traffic analysis, simulation, comparison, and reporting into one structured project record.
Technical traceability
Keep assumptions, alternatives, metrics, and outputs tied to the run behind each decision.
Why It Matters
Elevator traffic studies are still too fragmented
Many elevator planning decisions still depend on spreadsheets, local files, static assumptions, and disconnected reporting steps. That makes comparison slower, review weaker, and the final recommendation harder to revisit later.
Alternatives Are Hard to Compare
When every option branches into a separate file set, it becomes harder to defend why one scheme is stronger than another.
Calculation and Simulation Drift Apart
Early sizing may happen in one tool while deeper validation happens elsewhere, which breaks continuity in the technical story.
Reporting Gets Rebuilt Manually
Teams still spend time turning outputs back into review material instead of working from a connected project record.
Capabilities
One platform for calculation, simulation, and technical review
VT Planner brings together the core parts of an elevator traffic study: analytical review, simulation, alternative comparison, and a project record that makes results easier to revisit later.
Analytical Studies
Evaluate traffic performance with core planning metrics
Review interval, handling capacity, waiting time, journey time, and related planning metrics through analytical workflows built for early-stage traffic studies and sizing decisions.
Simulation
Go deeper when traffic behavior needs a more realistic test
Use discrete-event simulation for mixed traffic, percentiles, and controller behavior when a formula-based review is not enough.
Alternative Comparison
Keep multiple elevator schemes under the same building context
Compare car count, capacity, speed, zoning, and dispatch assumptions without rebuilding the full project every time.
Project Record
Keep assumptions, runs, and outputs tied together
Keep project definition, saved alternatives, and run history connected so teams can revisit decisions with a clearer technical basis.
Workflow
How a study moves from setup to review
VT Planner brings together the core parts of an elevator traffic study: analytical review, simulation, alternative comparison, and a project record that makes results easier to revisit later.
Outputs
Outputs teams can review, not just numbers on a screen
VT Planner brings together the core parts of an elevator traffic study: analytical review, simulation, alternative comparison, and a project record that makes results easier to revisit later.
Review metrics
- Interval
- Handling capacity
- Average waiting time
- Journey time
- Percentiles
Decision material
- Alternative summaries
- Scenario comparisons
- Charts and distributions
- Run traceability
- Report exports
Use Cases
Useful across design, modernization, and technical sales workflows
VT Planner brings together the core parts of an elevator traffic study: analytical review, simulation, alternative comparison, and a project record that makes results easier to revisit later.
Traffic studies
Evaluate elevator group sizing and service expectations during design and planning reviews.
Alternative comparison
Compare capacities, speeds, group definitions, and dispatch choices under the same building assumptions.
Modernization review
Assess whether a new configuration improves service before committing to a modernization path.
Technical sales support
Support proposals and recommendations with more structured traffic evidence and clearer output material.
Why Not Legacy Workflows
Move beyond spreadsheets and desktop-only study chains
VT Planner brings together the core parts of an elevator traffic study: analytical review, simulation, alternative comparison, and a project record that makes results easier to revisit later.
Traditional workflow
- Assumptions spread across files and static notes
- Alternatives compared manually across versions
- Calculation and simulation handled in separate tools
- Reporting rebuilt after the technical work is done
VT Planner
- One project record for building context and study inputs
- Saved elevator alternatives under the same scenario basis
- Analytical review and simulation in one workflow
- Outputs organized for technical review and reporting
FAQ
Questions teams ask when evaluating elevator traffic software
What is VT Planner?
VT Planner is a web-based software product for elevator traffic analysis, simulation, and project-based comparison of elevator alternatives.
Does it support both calculation and simulation?
Yes. VT Planner is built around both analytical traffic studies and deeper simulation workflows so teams can match the level of rigor to the decision in front of them.
What is elevator traffic analysis?
Elevator traffic analysis is the process of evaluating how well an elevator system can serve building demand. It typically involves metrics such as interval, handling capacity, waiting time, journey time, and overall service quality under defined traffic patterns.
What is the difference between analytical calculation and simulation?
Analytical calculation is useful for fast early-stage evaluation and sizing. Simulation is used when teams need a more dynamic view of performance under realistic operating conditions, passenger flows, and dispatch behavior.
When should simulation be used instead of a quick calculation?
Simulation is especially useful when a project needs deeper validation, more complex traffic patterns, or greater confidence in how an elevator group may perform over time rather than through simplified assumptions alone.
Who is the product for?
The product is aimed at vertical transportation consultants, elevator manufacturers and contractors, developers, design teams, and modernization teams that need a more structured basis for traffic decisions.
What kind of outputs can teams review?
Depending on the workflow, teams can review service KPIs, waiting-time distributions, scenario comparisons, and report-oriented outputs tied to the exact run behind them.
Why not just use spreadsheets?
Spreadsheets can still help with isolated calculations, but they are weaker when teams need project memory, comparable alternatives, traceable run history, and cleaner reporting.
Can VT Planner compare multiple elevator alternatives?
Yes. VT Planner is structured around projects that can store multiple elevator configurations under the same building context, making comparison more consistent and easier to review.
Is VT Planner suitable for modernization studies?
Yes. VT Planner can support modernization workflows by helping teams compare different elevator configurations and assess how performance may change before moving forward with a recommendation.
Is VT Planner browser-based?
Yes. VT Planner is a web-based platform, which makes it easier to access structured study workflows and project records without depending on a desktop-only setup.
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VT Planner brings together the core parts of an elevator traffic study: analytical review, simulation, alternative comparison, and a project record that makes results easier to revisit later.
Best for traffic studies, alternative comparison, modernization reviews, and technical sales support.
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