Vertical Transportation System Power Usage: Behavioural Case Study of Regulated Buildings in Bangkok

Abstract

Sustainable urban development worldwide is crucial for the development of living spaces in high-rise buildings and infrastructures, which leads to the inevitability of increased energy consumption and demand of vertical transportation systems. The evaluation of the energy consumption of transportation systems is needed to verify and analyse the power usage related to traffic demands and patterns. In addition, efficient vertical transportation systems are central to the formulation of more sustainable cities. Therefore, this trend represents a substantial portion of the overall energy consumption of the building types. The benchmarking of the energy needs of the vertical transportation systems in five different building types via the comparison of granular load profile patterns (in conjunction with population densities) to the energy consumed was conducted, and it will be used to infer some impactful design strategies for the future. This study demonstrated a systematic approach to determine the power usage patterns in vertical transportation systems by actual measurement and traffic data collection from elevator monitoring. This may be used to develop a prediction for other cases in different types of installed vertical transportation systems. Therefore, the power usage of the vertical transportation systems can be used to determine the correlation between energy consumption and load pattern based on building characteristics and the overall energy consumption of each presented system.