Global Journal of Researches in Engineering, J: General Engineering, Volume 22 Issue 1

© 2022. Christopher Gbenga & Akande. This research/review article is distributed under the terms of the Attribution- NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BYNCND 4.0). You must give appropriate credit to authors and reference this article if parts of the article are reproduced in any manner. Applicable licensing terms are at https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. Global Journal of Researches in Engineering: J General Engineering Volume 22 Issue 1 Version 1.0 Year 2022 Type: Double Blind Peer Reviewed International Research Journal Publisher: Global Journals Online ISSN: 2249-4596 & Print ISSN: 0975-5861 Improving Trucks Management at Dumpsites through the Application of Queue Theory- The Case of Solous III Dumpsite, Igando, Lagos State By Christopher Gbenga & Akande Lagos State University Abstract- Queue models are potent and veritable tools for urgent allocation of resources and basis for planning officers, resource managers and corporate organizations to respond to the demand rate with appropriate service rate. The usefulness of queue model in developing relevant policies for allocating and managing resources at the dumpsites has been emphasized in this study. Some factors (number of trucks and average waiting time in the system and in the queue etc.) were used to measure the performance of Solous III dumpsite based on the trucks’ arrival rate and corresponding service rate rendered by the managers of this dumpsite. This study used simple queue model (M/M/1) of First Come, First Served (FCFS) to evaluate trucks activities at the dumpsite. The performance measures include: numbers of trucks in the queue and in the system, waiting time of trucks in the queue and in the system as well as the probabilities associated with the trucks at the dumpsite. The queue analysis indicated that the traffic intensity was 0.96 which is close to 1 and that an average of 24 trucks are in the system while an average of 23 trucks are in the queue per hour. Average waiting time in the queue and in the system accounted for 28mins and 30mins respectively. Keywords: queue, queue models, performance measures, trucks, dumpsites etc. GJRE-J Classification: DDC Code: 892.736 LCC Code: PJ7814.S514 ImprovingTrucksManagementatDumpsitesthroughtheApplicationofQueueTheoryTheCaseofSolousIIIDumpsiteIgandoLagosState Strictly as per the compliance and regulations of: