Patent ID: 8245819

Claim:
An evacuation support apparatus for an elevator, for causing an elevator to perform an evacuation operation for conveying people stranded in a building including a plurality of floors to an evacuation floor in an emergency, comprising: rescue floor setting means for setting a floor determined based on a predetermined condition as a rescue floor, the floor being selected from the plurality of floors; and response floor setting means for registering a call only for the floor on which a call input device for specific persons is operated in a case of the evacuation operation as the call for an evacuation response floor, the call input device for specific persons and a call input device for general persons being provided on each of the plurality of floors, wherein: the elevator includes a common car which moves in a reciprocating manner between the rescue floor and the evacuation floor in the case of the evacuation operation; and the common car is capable of responding to the registered call for the evacuation response floor in the case of the evacuation operation.