Queue maths
Registration throughput
Queues form because arrivals outpace the counter, not because the software is slow. Put in your delegate count and staffing and see where the desk gives way.
- Worst wait at the peak
- under a minute
- Desk capacity
- 4,800
- Peak arrival rate
- 1,920
- Longest queue
- 0
- Counters for a 5-minute wait
- 5
- Everyone through in
- 90 min
What this assumes
- Model
- Deterministic, over the busiest 30 minutes
- Target wait
- 5 minutes
- Assumes
- Pre-printed badges and a counter that does not stop. Add 3–4s per delegate for on-demand printing.
Next step
These are planning figures, not a quote
The model above is deliberately simple, and its assumptions are listed beside the result. For a costed answer against your actual hall plan and arrival data, the proposal builder takes about four minutes.
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