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Queueing Theory Applied to Highways

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A toll collection system has four toll booths and it is observed that at each toll booth the time required to pay the toll had an exponential distribution with a mean time of 5s. Vehicles arrive at the toll facility at random and at a rate of 2400 veh/h.

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© 1989 R. J. Salter

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Salter, R.J. (1989). Queueing Theory Applied to Highways. In: Traffic Engineering. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10800-8_10

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