Question

Explain why would an accident on the highway during traffic rush hour cause higher amounts of traffic jams than non-rush hour times.

Back your answer up using operation management principles and logical arguments. Have at least 3 points of argument.

Answer 1

During a peak rush hour, the number of vehicles arriving per unit time on a busy road is higher than the lean time. Similarly, due to higher number of vehicles on the road, the time for a vehicle to pass through a road is higher. As a result, the high arrival rate and low passage rate through a road results in longer queue length, if the process stops suddenly ( which is the case whenever there is an accident). The rate of building up queue is much faster during rush hour than normal time ( because arrival rate remains the same while rate of passage suddenly reduces due to disruption) and this results in traffic jams whenever people try to disturb the queueing discipline ( jumping the line).

Operations Management is basically a systematic approach to resolve all the issues regarding the transformation process that converts inputs into output & fetch revenue. The operation management helps us to save the cost and reduce wastes and get more profit. Now in this case of an accident in the middle of a traffic rush causes huge traffic rush. If our organization is producing higher number of products in the market bcz demands are high,if organization stops the production then customers jumping to another product. It's created the disturbance like jams in the market.