[Clips] Paying Extra for Faster Airport Security

[Anne & Lynn Wheeler]

there were several news URLs a month or so ago about the issue of 
"faster" in conjunction with the orlanda effort and some of the 
predictions on possibly 40mil (most frequently travelling) people sign 
up if such programs were rolled out around the country.

the issue raised was that they were effectively paying to have a 
priority queue for the existing screening stations (effectively could 
take the place of the first class queue at some airports) ... and what 
is the characteristic of a priority queue if nearly everybody is 
standing in the priority queue rather than the regular queue.

having done some work on queuing ... i turned out the mainframe resource 
manager in the 70s
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#fairshare
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#wsclock

if the service stations are the same ... and you just are re-arranging 
the order of service ... priority queues have the appearance of meeting 
their objectives when only a small percentage of the total population is 
in the priority queue.


R.A. Hettinga wrote:
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> Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 20:40:26 -0400
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> From: "R.A. Hettinga" <rah at shipwright.com>
> Subject: [Clips] Paying Extra for Faster Airport Security
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> Security needs identity like a fish needs... well, you get the idea...
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> Cheers,
> RAH
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> <http://online.wsj.com/article_print/0,,SB111767537888648936,00.html>
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> The Wall Street Journal
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>  June 2, 2005
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> 
> 
> Paying Extra for Faster Airport Security
> Orlando Kicks Off Program
>  Offering Quicker Screenings
>  To Holders of Special Cards

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