BUSY PERIOD CONTROL OF QUEUES BASED ON WAITING TIMES AT ARRIVALS

System maintenance and vehicular traffic control problems have motivated the queue control systems studied here. This article presents results for optimal assignment of servers or rejection of customers, on the basis of arriving customers' waiting times, when the objective function is the mean of a control penalty plus a variable such as busy period duration, number served in a busy period, or total delay to all customers in a busy period.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Also published in Operations Research, Vol. 24, No. 3, May-June 1976, pp 543-563.
• Corporate Authors:

  Polytechnic Institute of New York

  333 Jay Street
  Brooklyn, NY  United States  11201
• Authors:
  • Shaw, L
• Publication Date: 1974-11-21

Media Info

• Pagination: 22 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Control; Highway traffic; Maintenance; Optimization; Queuing; Queuing theory; Reprints; Time intervals; Traffic; Traffic control; Traffic delays; Vehicles; Waiting time
• Old TRIS Terms: Queueing theory; Vehicular traffic
• Subject Areas: Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Operations and Traffic Management; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00143735
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 17 1977 12:00AM