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Observations of the operation and performance of bank drive-in facilities in Lincoln, Nebraska, indicated that current storage requirements for these facilities were excessive. The objective of this research was to determine why these theoretically and empirically developed requirements were excessive and to develop more reasonable storage requirements. Arrival and servicetime data collected at bank drive-in facilities were analyzed. It was determined that the arrivals were Poisson. But, contrary to the usually employed queuing theory assumptions of negative exponential serving times, which had been used to develop previous storage requirements, the service-time distributions were found to be gamma distributions with shape parameters between 2.75 and 5.00. Because of the intractability of using queuing theory with gamma service-time distributions, simulation models of singlequeue and multiple-queue, multiple-channel queuing systems typical of bank drive-in facilities were developed and validated. The models were then used to determine more appropriate storage requirements

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Accuracy; Banking industry; Handling and storage; Poisson distributions; Queuing theory; Specifications; Storage facilities; Time

Drive-up windows; Requirement

Freight Transportation; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Terminals and Facilities; I71: Traffic Theory

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Jan 31 1986 12:00AM

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