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Queue Management in Transportation Systems

The document discusses various scenarios involving arrival rates and service rates at an airport, railway station, telephone booth, and bus stand, focusing on queue management and congestion. It includes calculations for average queue sizes, waiting times, and probabilities related to customer arrivals and service efficiency. The document aims to analyze and optimize service systems in different transportation contexts.

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Queue Management in Transportation Systems

The document discusses various scenarios involving arrival rates and service rates at an airport, railway station, telephone booth, and bus stand, focusing on queue management and congestion. It includes calculations for average queue sizes, waiting times, and probabilities related to customer arrivals and service efficiency. The document aims to analyze and optimize service systems in different transportation contexts.

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The rate of arrivals of planes at an international airport is 20 per hour and the airport can land 30 p

planes per hour on an average.

When there is congestion, the planes are forced to fly over the field in the stack awaiting the land

of other planes that arrived [Link]


(i) How many planes would be flying over the field on an average?
(ii) How long a plane would be in the stack and in the process of landing?
There is a congestion of the platform of a railway station. The trains arrive at the rate of
30 trainsper day. The waiting time for any train to hump is exponentially distributed
with an average of 36minutes. Calculate: (a) The mean queue size, (b) The probability
that the queue size exceeds 9.

The arrivals at a telephone booth are considered to be following Poisson law of


distribution withan average time of 10 minutes between one arrival and the next. Length
of the phone call is assumed tobe distributed exponentially with a mean of 3 minutes.
(a) What is the probability that a person arriving at the booth will have to wait?
(b) What is the average length of queue that forms from time to time?
(c) The telephone department will install a second booth when convinced that an arrival
wouldexpect to wait at least thee minutes for the phone. By how much must the flow of
arrivals beincreased in order to justify a second booth?
In a bus stand with single ticketing counter, on an average 12 commuters arrive every 10
minutes . The counter clerk is able to issue 8 tickets in a span of 5 minutes.
Find(i) The average number of commuters in the queue.
(ii)The average waiting time in the queue.
(iii) The expected waiting time in the queue before getting the service.
The mean duration of a telephone conversation is estimated to be 3 minutes. If no more than a three
minute wait for the phone may be tolerated, find the largest amount of incoming traffic

that can be supported?


Customers arrive at the first class ticket counter of a railway station at the rate of 12 per hour. There

is a clerk serving the customers at a rate of 30 per hour.

(i) What is the probability that there is no customers in the counter?

(ii) What is the probability that there are more than 2 customers in the queue?
(iii) WHat is the probabilty that a customer is being served and no one is waiting?

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