Question: OUESTION # 4 ( 7 POINTS ) Suppose that two shuttle buses operate between the Waterford Shopping Center in Southeast Orange County and the

OUESTION\#4(7 POINTS)
Suppose that two shuttle buses operate between the Waterford Shopping Center in Southeast Orange County and the UCF campus. One bus can carry 20 people and has a round trip time of 8 minutes (including loading and unloading passengers); the other can carry 25 people but has a round time of 10 minutes. There is always a queue of people waiting at the Waterford Shopping Center bus stop, but people arrive at the UCF campus bus stop at a steady rate of 2 per minute.
If neither bus is idle at any time, determine:
(4.1) Hourly flow of people from Waterford Shopping Center to UCF campus.
(4.2) Hourly flow of people from UCF campus to Waterford Shopping Center.
(4.3) Hourly flow of buses from Waterford Shopping Center to UCF campus.
(4.4) Hourly flow of buses from UCF campus to Waterford Shopping Center.
(4.5) The average number of passengers per bus from UCF campus to Waterford Shopping Center.
(4.6) If one insisted on dispatching these buses from Waterford Shopping Center to UCF campus at equal headways (by asking the faster bus driver to wait two extra minutes in every round trip), what is the maximum number of people that could be carried per hour from Waterford Shopping Center to UCF campus?
(4.7) Would you expect the strategy in (4.6) above to reduce the average waiting time of passengers going from UCF campus to Waterford Shopping Center? Justify your answer by calculating waiting times with a numerical example using data in this problem. State all your assumptions clearly.
OUESTION \ # 4 ( 7 POINTS ) Suppose that two

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