Modeling Queue Length at The Toll Gate Using Promodel Before and After Ramp-Off Construction

Abstract

In everyday life, queues often occur. Waiting at the counter to get train or movie tickets, at the toll gate, at the bank, at the supermarket, and in other situations that we often encounter Queues occur when the need for services exceeds the capacity or capacity of the service facility. As a result, users of the facility cannot get immediate service due to the busyness of the service. The Amplas Toll Gate queue is the object of this research. The Amplas Toll Gate is one of the densest toll gates that is heavily traveled by vehicles both entering and exiting. This makes it often seen a fairly long queue, especially during peak hours in the late afternoon to evening. The Medan City Government built an off ramp at the Amplas flyover in 2016. This off ramp leads directly to the Amplas toll gate. The vehicle arrival rate increases along with the queue length because vehicles can arrive faster to the toll gate. This study aims to calculate the queue length at the Amplas toll gate before and after the construction of the ramp off. Data is obtained by recording the volume of vehicles at the research location. With an average service time of 7 seconds, the queuing method produces a queue length of 11.98 meters, while the results using Pro Model software are 11.98 meters. In addition, the queue length after the construction of the ramp off decreased to 6.67 meters from before the construction of the ramp off. Promodel is a windows-based simulation software used to simulate and analyze a system.