Service points in public toilets to minimize and balance the waiting times for women and men
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https://doi.org/10.3989/ic.15.117Keywords:
public toilets, ladies toilets, dimensioning of public toilets, queues, waiting timesAbstract
The article raises the issue of the queues that usually appear in the ladies toilets in contrast to the fluidity with which gentlemen can access theirs, and points that this situation is only due to bad dimensioning of the toilets and thus that the problem has an easy solution. After describing and parameterizing the queuing forming processes in ladies and gentlemen toilets, a simulation program is used to analyze in each case the influence of the number of service points in waiting times. Finally, the results obtained are used to give recommendations in order to balance the waiting times of ladies and gentlemen while keeping them below reasonable levels.
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