A Transient Queuing Model for Analyzing and Optimizing Gate Congestion of Railway Container Terminals

Table 4

Optimization results of the railway container terminal gate system in different time sections.

Time section	Number of service channels	Average number of trucks in the queue	Average total cost ($)
4:00–6:00	1	1.56	103.41
6:00–8:00	2	1.80	186.93
8:00–12:00	3	3.29	289.38
12:00–14:00	2	2.20	192.99
14:00–18:00	4	4.89	393.36