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Queues with time-dependent arrival rates. III — A mild rush hour

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

G. F. Newell
G. F. Newell*
Affiliation:
Institute of Transportation and Traffic Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
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Abstract

The arrival rate of customers to a service facility is assumed to have the form λ(t) = λ(0) — βt2 for some constant β. Diffusion approximations show that for λ(0) sufficiently close to the service rate μ, the mean queue length at time 0 is proportional to β–1/5. A dimensionless form of the diffusion equation is evaluated numerically from which queue lengths can be evaluated as a function of time for all λ(0) and β. Particular attention is given to those situations in which neither deterministic queueing theory nor equilibrium stochastic queueing theory apply.

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Research Papers
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Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 5 , Issue 3 , December 1968 , pp. 591 - 606
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1968 

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References

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