Queue Area
Queue areas are places in which people queue (first-come, first-served) for goods or services. Examples include checking out groceries or other goods that have been collected in a self service shop, in a shop without self-service, at an ATM, at a ticket desk, a city bus, or in a taxi stand.
Queueing is a phenomenon in a number of fields, and has been extensively analysed in the study of queueing theory.
In economics, queueing is seen as one way to ration scarce goods and services.
Read more about Queue Area: Queue Ethics, Physical Queue Design, Using Substitution in Virtual Queues, Queue Delays
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“English people apparently queue up as a sort of hobby. A family man might pass a mild autumn evening by taking the wife and kids to stand in the cinema queue for a while and then leading them over for a few minutes in the sweetshop queue and then, as a special treat for the kids, saying “Perhaps we’ve time to have a look at the Number Thirty-One bus queue before we turn in.””
—Calvin Trillin (b. 1940)
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—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)