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Proceedings of the 17th Symposium on Lift & Escalator Technologies
Professor Stefan Kaczmarczyk & Dr Richard Peters · 17th Symposium on Lift & Escalator Technologies
16 Sep 2026The Science Behind Lift Codes & Standards
Rory Smith · 17th Symposium on Lift & Escalator Technologies
codes · standards 16 Sep 2026Where and When: How Continuous Lift Monitoring Answers the Two Questions That Drive Service Efficiency
Polina Rukin and Christoph Ruediger · 17th Symposium on Lift & Escalator Technologies
adaptive baseline · anomaly detection · fault detection · iot · lift monitoring · predictive maintenance · sensor fusion 16 Sep 2026Examining the Condition of Hospital Lifts after an Earthquake
Eren Kalay, Adem Candaş, C. Erdem İmrak, Emre Pınarbaşı and Tolga Balcı · 17th Symposium on Lift & Escalator Technologies
damage after earthquake · earthquake · hospital lifts · seismic effect 16 Sep 2026Shifting Gears and Lifting Careers: Women in the Lift Industry
Gemma Moore · 17th Symposium on Lift & Escalator Technologies
gender diversity · inclusive apprenticeships · women in engineering · workplace culture 16 Sep 2026Maximum Lift Car Loading Accepted by Passengers in High-Rise Office Buildings: Does Data Support the 80% Rule?
Mirko Ruokokoski and Tiina Laine · 17th Symposium on Lift & Escalator Technologies
automated passenger counting · car capacity factor · lift passenger behaviour 16 Sep 2026Vertical Transportation in Super-Tall Luxury Residential Towers in India
V.Jagadish Kumar · 17th Symposium on Lift & Escalator Technologies
human-centric mobility · luxury high-rise housing · smart destination control · super-tall residential towers 16 Sep 2026Security-Oriented Artificial Intelligence-Embedded Image Processing for
Tevfik Keleş, Mehmet Selçok, Eren Kalay, Adem Candaş and C. Erdem İmrak · 17th Symposium on Lift & Escalator Technologies
artificial intelligence · car capacity · image processing · passenger security 16 Sep 2026Dynamic Response of Lift Systems Under Overtravel and Buffer Impact Conditions
Stefan Kaczmarczyk · 17th Symposium on Lift & Escalator Technologies
acceleration · buffer · dynamic responses · gravity stopping distance · overtravel 16 Sep 2026CAN vs. Ethernet in Lift Systems
Stefan Gerstenmeyer, Richard Peters and Mike Pentney · 17th Symposium on Lift & Escalator Technologies
can bus · communication · dispatcher · elevator systems · ethernet · lift systems · network · traffic control 16 Sep 2026Designing Vertical Transportation for Modern Airports: Performance, Capacity, and Passenger‑Centric Planning
Terry Lai Kin Fung · 17th Symposium on Lift & Escalator Technologies
airport vertical transportation · lift and escalator design · passenger flow modelling · terminal planning 16 Sep 2026Theoretical Whole Building Evacuation
Kristian Farr and Alastair Bartlett · 17th Symposium on Lift & Escalator Technologies
evacuation · evacuation capacity assessment · evacuation lifts · operator assisted evacuation · phased evacuation · stair evacuation 16 Sep 2026Precise High-Speed Hoist Way Scanning System in Super-Tall Buildings
Dennis Aeschbacher, Daniel Roth, Michael Eibel and Erich Spirgi · 17th Symposium on Lift & Escalator Technologies
guide rails and landing door alignment · multichannel fast data tracking · ride quality · super-tall buildings · vibration measurements 16 Sep 2026From Cloud to Control Cabinet: Edge AI for the Next Generation of Lift Monitoring
Tim Ebeling · 17th Symposium on Lift & Escalator Technologies
anomaly detection · condition monitoring · edge ai · expert system · hybrid cloud-edge architecture · lift monitoring · model adaptation · neural processing unit · predictive maintenance · sensor fusion 16 Sep 2026Beyond Aesthetics: How Cabin Finishes Influence Lift Design
Vignesh Dhanapal · 17th Symposium on Lift & Escalator Technologies
accessibility compliance · lift cabin finishes · net usable area · traffic performance 16 Sep 2026Escalator Step Entrapments
David Cooper · 17th Symposium on Lift & Escalator Technologies
comb plate entrapment · escalator · footwear · friction · moving walk · prevention · step-to-skirt entrapment · step-to-step entrapment 16 Sep 2026Development of an Ontology for Interoperability Between Lift Systems and Other Systems
Jonathan Beebe · 17th Symposium on Lift & Escalator Technologies
lift systems interoperability · ontology · use case analysis 16 Sep 2026Ethics of AI in Lift Systems
Matthew Appleby · 17th Symposium on Lift & Escalator Technologies
accountability · artificial intelligence · ethics · fairness · lift systems · ownership · privacy 16 Sep 2026Establishing a Universal Relationship between the Traffic Mix in a Building and the Stops Data
Lutfi Al-Sharif, Richard Peters, Matthew Appleby and R Tahani Ghaben · 17th Symposium on Lift & Escalator Technologies
elevator · entrance floor · incoming traffic · interfloor traffic · lift · machine learning · occupant floor · outgoing traffic · the round trip 24 Oct 2025A chronology of the life of Howard Marryat.
David Cooper and Stephen Harrison · 16th Symposium on Lift & Escalator Technologies
24 Sep 2025Lift buffer forces under unfavourable collision conditions
Stefan Vöth · 16th Symposium on Lift & Escalator Technologies
24 Sep 2025Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) and why it is often ineffective
Rory Smith · 16th Symposium on Lift & Escalator Technologies
24 Sep 2025Enabling innovation through an Internet of Things (IoT) platform that operates alongside the lift controller without modifying the certified safety chain
Daan Smans · 16th Symposium on Lift & Escalator Technologies
24 Sep 202580%: Lift traffic design’s most misunderstood number
Richard Peters · 16th Symposium on Lift & Escalator Technologies
24 Sep 2025Lift evacuation communications
Pavel Kotek · 16th Symposium on Lift & Escalator Technologies
24 Sep 2025Improving maintenance with technology
John Koshak · 16th Symposium on Lift & Escalator Technologies
24 Sep 2025Dynamic rope loads and traction ratios under adverse lift operating conditions
Stefan Kaczmarczyk · 16th Symposium on Lift & Escalator Technologies
24 Sep 2025Identifying and addressing the causes of excessive wear in lift suspension means through rope load analysis
Tim Ebling · 16th Symposium on Lift & Escalator Technologies
24 Sep 2025Mass Migration of Lift Alarm Connections – A Case Study
Matthew Davies and Chris Holmes · 16th Symposium on Lift & Escalator Technologies
24 Sep 2025Advances in technical E-Learning training in the lift industry
José María Compagni Morales and Jose Compagni Aycart · 16th Symposium on Lift & Escalator Technologies