Movement demand estimation and people flow estimation systems and methods

A people flow estimation method for estimating a flow of people inside and outside a building using architectural model data which is data including a plurality of architectural model parts, the method comprising:

• inputting architectural model data which is data including a plurality of architectural model parts, an in-building personnel database containing data in which attribute information capable of identifying a name or use of a space included in the architectural model data, and an in-building personnel density are association with one another, and a movement demand distribution database containing data recording a distribution of occurrence a movement demand with respect to a reference time inside the building;
• calculating a number of in-building personnel from the architectural model data and the in-building personnel database;
• correcting the number of in-building personnel to produce a corrected number of in-building personnel based on a target number of in-building personnel;
• calculating movement demand data based on the corrected number of in-building personnel and the movement demand distribution database;
• based on the movement demand data and layout data defining a structure of the building created based on the architectural model data, adding positions corresponding to a departure location and a destination of the movement demand to the layout data;
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• estimating an operation condition and a working condition of an elevator in the building and the flow of people by simulating operation of the elevator and movement of the people by associating the movement demand data with the architectural model data or the layout data corresponding to the architectural model data.

A movement demand estimation system for calculating movement demand data of a pedestrian between points inside and outside a building using a number of in-building personnel in the building, the system comprising:

• a storage unit that records architectural model data including a plurality of architectural model parts, and an in-building personnel database containing data in which attribute information capable of identifying a name or use of a space included in the architectural model data, and the number of in-building personnel or an in-building personnel density are association with one another;
• an in-building personnel calculation unit that calculates a number of in-building personnel for each room or each floor from the architectural model data and the data in the in-building personnel database;
• an in-building personnel correction unit that corrects the number of in-building personnel calculated by the in-building personnel calculation unit to produce a corrected number of in-building personnel based on a target number of in-building personnel;
• a movement demand calculation unit that calculates the movement demand data based on the corrected number of in-building personnel;
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• a simulation unit that estimates the operation condition and working condition of an elevator in the building and a flow of people by simulating operation of the elevator and movement of the people by associating the movement demand data with the architectural model data or layout data corresponding to the architectural model data.