WAITING LINES
The Peachtree Airport in Atlanta serves light aircraft. It has asingle runway and one air traffic controller to land planes. Ittakes an airplane 10 minutes to land and clear the runway, butplanes arrive at the rate of 4 per hour.
Set up the waiting lines problem and be prepared to answerquestions from the output
WAITINGLINES(Airport)
__________8a. What is the average number of planes that willstack up waiting to land?
__________8b. What is the average time a plane must wait in linebefore it can land?
__________8c. What is the probability that no planes are in thearea and the traffic controller
can actually take a breather?
__________8d. What is the average time it takes a plane to clearthe runway once it has notified
the airport that it is in the vicinity and wants to land?
__________8e. If the FAA requires 15 minutes of idle time everyhour for their Air Traffic
Controllers (75% utilization), will the airport have to hire anextra one?
