Patent ID: 8006807

Claim:
An elevator group control apparatus comprising: an estimation arithmetic operation means for, in a case in which a plurality of elevators are employed and a hall call has occurred, when assigning said hall call to each of said plurality of elevators, estimating a running time required for each of said plurality of elevators to run from its current position to a floor at which the hall call has occurred in response to said hall call, and also estimating a running distance over which each of said plurality of elevators runs from its current position to the floor at which the hall call has occurred in response to said hall call; a weighting factor determining means for determining a weighting factor for an item to be evaluated, which is calculated from the running distance estimated by said estimation arithmetic operation means by taking into consideration a relation between a running distance of an elevator and a passenger waiting time; a total evaluated value calculating means for calculating a total evaluated value of each of said plurality of elevators from the item to be evaluated of said running distance, an item to be evaluated of said running time, and the weighting factor determined by said weighting factor determining means; and a hall call assignment means for selecting an elevator whose total evaluated value that is calculated by said total evaluated value calculating means is best from among said plurality of elevators, and for assigning said hall call to said selected elevator.