Dispatching - Options - MCi iControl User Manual

Dispatching - Options

Dispatching options allow you to set up conditions that favor the assignment of one car or
another.
When assigning hall calls to cars, iControl determines which car can respond in the least time
considering where each car is, its direction of travel, parking assignment and status (moving or
idle). By adding bonus or penalty seconds to the response time under certain conditions, you
can influence dispatching assignments.
• Car at same floor bonus: If a car is at the same floor as a newly-registered hall call, credit
its response time (favor its assignment) by the set number of seconds.
• Coincidence call bonus: If a car is on its way to a floor when a hall call is registered from
that same floor, credit its response time (favor its assignment) by the set time in seconds.
• Retask penalty: When considering reassigning a call from one car to another to improve
response time, debit the response time of all cars except the one to which the call is cur-
rently assigned (penalize reassignment) by the set number of seconds.
• Move lobby parked car penalty: When making a hall call assignment or reassignment,
debit the response time of any car parked at a lobby (penalize its assignment) by the set
number of seconds. (This allows you to skew the decision in favor of keeping the lobby
parked cars available at the lobby.)
• Move non-lobby parked car penalty: When making a hall call assignment or reassignment,
debit the response time of any car parked at non-lobby floors (penalize its assignment) by
the set number of seconds. (This allows you to skew the decision in favor of keeping
parked cars available at their parking floor.)
• Move idle car penalty: When making a hall call assignment or reassignment, debit the
response time of any idle car (penalize its assignment) by the set number of seconds.
• Allow same floor hall calls to reverse doors on a departing car: If enabled, a hall call placed
at the floor/riser where a car is preparing to depart (closing its doors) will cause the doors
to reopen.
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