**8. Conclusions**

This paper has presented a systematic methodology for converting the user requirement specification into an origin-destination matrix.

It converts the traffic conditions (i.e., traffic mix) and the floor percentages (the floor percentage arrivals and the floor percentage populations) into an origin destination matrix. The conversion process takes into consideration that irrational passenger behaviour must be disallowed (e.g., one passenger's journey cannot originate and terminate at the same floor). Thus, the diagonal of the matrix must be zeroed.

The origin destination matrix is a compact concise form for expressing the passenger movements within the building. It has been used for generating random *A Universal Methodology for Generating Elevator Passenger Origin-Destination Pairs… DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.93332*

passenger destinations for calculating the round-trip time using the Monte Carlo simulation method of within elevator traffic simulation software, an example of which is shown at the end of the paper.
