Exercise 2: Queuing System

 

Trucks arrive at a loading dock on average every 0.6 hours. It takes on average 0.5 hours to unload a truck. Assuming that arrival intervals and service times are exponentially distributed, simulate the queuing system to find the average waiting times and the average number of trucks in the queue/system.

 

Suppose you could install an new conveyor belt system to unload trucks faster, so that the average unloading time is cut to 0.25 hours. How much improvement will there be in the average waiting time and average number in queue/system?