Introduction to Management Science 12th Edition by Bernard Taylor

Exercise 12

The inland port at Front Royal, Virginia, is a transportation hub that primarily transfers shipping containers from trucks coming from eastern seaports to rail cars for shipment to inland destinations. Containers arrive at the inland ports at a rate of 8 per hour. It takes 28 minutes (exponentially distributed) for a crane to unload a container from a truck, place it on a flatbed railcar, and secure it. Suggest a waiting line system that will effectively handle this level of container traffic at the inland port.