Transport Commissioner Angela Lee on Thursday said she believes the switch to an electronic ticketing system for ...

You've probably already noticed the difference between the way people line up at McDonald's and the way they line up at Starbucks. At McDonald's, a single employee handles your entire order. Even if ...

There are queues, and there are queues. Those interested in seeing the chic-est – and possibly longest – of these should hot-foot it down to the new Polène store in Regent Street, London, which opened ...

Queueing theory provides a robust mathematical framework for analysing waiting lines, a critical aspect across sectors ranging from telecommunications and healthcare to manufacturing and ...

Queueing: Brits are experts at it, and airports are hotspots for it. It’s the inevitably boring but necessary slog of any journey. Check-in, bag drop, security checks, border control, boarding, ...

A Wetherspoons pub that made customers queue in line for a pint has scrapped the rule after complaints. The chain trialled a single-file queueing system at its Surrey Docks pub in Rotherhithe, ...

A simple example illustrates some of the concepts involved in model building. The network shown in Figure 1.6 models an M/M/1 queue. Transactions originate at the source node Sampler. The user chooses ...