Mathematics and statistics professor Myron Hlynka is one of the experts consulted by Macleans magazine for an article entitled “The end of the wait for the elevator: Science and industrial design join together to try to make elevators more efficient.”

He praises “destination-oriented dispatching,” a system which assigns users to elevators depending on their desired final stops.

“It’s fascinating,” says Dr. Hlynka. “It’s almost like preprocessing.”

Read the full article at Macleans.ca.