Some of the physics and technical aspects of Queues are covered in the articles above. Today, I’d like to spend a minute on Wait Time Psychology of Queues. You can also view all 40+ articles on Queueing Theory. There are a few key behavioral responses or reactions to queues, or waiting. Some of these countermeasures to […]

I previously wrote on Queueing Theory and titled those posts as Queueing Theory: Part 1 and Queueing Theory: Part 2. You can also view all 40+ articles on Queueing Theory. Today, I’ll briefly explain how to set-up a model in Microsoft Excel to simulate a Single-Server Queue. These Queueing Theory Calculations can then be used […]

Earlier, we discussed one application of Queueing Theory in warehousing using this reference on Little’s Law. You can also view all 40+ articles on Queueing Theory. Now, let’s discuss part 2 of the queueing theory series. Let’s begin with Little’s Law, formalized as: L = λW In that post, I stated that a goal in […]

This post is part of a series on Queueing Theory. There’s also a Little’s Law Reference you can read. A queueing system is a model with the following structure: customers arrive and join a queue to wait for service given by n servers. after receiving service, the customer exits the system. a fundamental result of queueing […]