A queue-dependent vehicle dispatching rule, with options to use special vehicles (rented, reserve, shared etc.) for relieving long waiting lines, is considered. The transportation system under consideration has one source terminal and a fleet of N regular vehicles. Passengers are assumed to...

I: Introduction -- 1.1 A Perspective -- 1.2 Earlier Work -- II: Mathematical Formulation of the Bulk Queuing Problem -- 2.1 A Class of Markov Recurrence Relations -- 2.2 The Abstract Formalism -- III: A Numerical Approach to Waiting Line Problems -- 3.1 Numerical Methods in Queuing Theory -- 3.2...