Lecture 2: Flow Basics; Little’s Law

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Handouts

• Syllabus
• Little’s Law
• Lecture 2 : Web Summary

Related Materials

• Rooting Out Waste in Health Care by Taking Cue From Toyota Assembly Lines (Link to Video)
• Traffic Measurements and Predictions:

1. 1. Measuring Traffic, by Peter Bickel_ Chao Chenz Jaimyoung Kwon, John Rice_ Erik van Zwety Pravin Varaiya, 2004.
   2. Traffic Flow on a Freeway Network, Peter Bickel, Chao Chen, Jaimyoung Kwon, John Rice, Pravin Varaiya, Erik van Zwet.
   3. Freeway Performance Measurement System (PeMS) (link)
   4. Causes and Cures of Highway Congestion, Chao Chen, Zhanfeng Jia and Pravin Varaiya, 2001.
   5. The freeway congestion paradox, Chao Chen and Pravin Varaiya, 2001.
   6. London Public Transportation During the Olympic Games (link) (link)

• Readings for Measurements, Little’s Law: Queueing Methods (Hall), Chapter 2
• Randolph Hall et al. Modeling Patience Flows Through the Healthcare System. Chapter 1 from the book “Patient Flow: Reducing Delay in Healthcare Delivery”

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