A toll booth on the Thruway experiences an average inter-arrival time of 3 minutes between each vehicle. As an operator, you want to have a mean queue length of at most 2 vehicles. What mean service rate (per hour) will the toll booth need to provide?

= a2+ Assume an origin is connected to a destination with two routes. Assume the travel time of each route has a linear relationship with the traffic flow on the route (t₁ = α₁ + b₁x₁ ; t₂ b2x2). Determine under what condition (e.g. a relationship among the parameters of the performance functions) tolling cannot reduce the total travel time of the two routes.

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The arrival times of vehicles at the ticket gate of a sports stadium may be assumed to bePoisson with a mean of 30 mi/h. It takes an average of 1.5 min for the necessary tickets to be bought for occupants of each car. (a) What is the expected length of queue at the ticket gate, not including the vehicle being served? (b) What is the probability that there are no more than 5 cars at the gate, including the vehicle being served? (c) What will be the average waiting time of a vehicle?