Patent ID: 7913818

Claim:
An elevator installation in a building with at least two elevators, wherein the building is divided into at least two building zones that are arranged vertically one above the other and each elevator has at least one elevator car, each elevator car being independently movable by an associated drive in an associated car zone and each car zone having at least one transfer floor, comprising: a first one of the at least two elevators has at least three elevator cars arranged vertically one above the other in a shaft, each one of said at least three elevator cars being independently movable in said shaft by a separate associated drive; a second one of the at least two elevators having a high-speed car which exclusively serves the transfer floors of the building zones from a building lobby; and at least three car zones in said shaft of the first elevator are allocated only to a one of the at least two building zones served by said at least three elevator cars of said first elevator.