Patent ID: 8267224

Claim:
An elevator system with an elevator car and with brake equipment, the elevator car being movable in normal operation and in a special operating mode and being able to be decelerated to standstill and held at standstill by the brake equipment by a braking force produced by the brake equipment engaging with a brake track, wherein the brake equipment calculates a required deceleration in order to bring the elevator car to standstill within an exit zone in the special operating mode, comprising: the brake equipment during movement of the elevator car in the normal operating mode calculates a plurality of times a hypothetically required deceleration which would be required in order to bring the elevator car to standstill within the exit zone in the direction of travel using the special operating mode; and the brake equipment in response to an occurrence of an event uses a most recent one of the hypothetically required decelerations as the required deceleration for the braking in the special operating mode.