Waiting-Time Paradox in 1922

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Title:	Waiting-Time Paradox in 1922
Author(s):	Masuda, Naoki ; Hiraoka, Takayuki
Date:	2020-05
Language:	en
Pages:	19
Department:	State University of New York at Buffalo Professorship Saramäki J. Department of Computer Science
Series:	Northeast Journal of Complex Systems, Volume 2, issue 1
ISSN:	2577-8439
DOI-number:	10.22191/nejcs/vol2/iss1/1
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Citation: Masuda , N & Hiraoka , T 2020 , ' Waiting-Time Paradox in 1922 ' , Northeast Journal of Complex Systems , vol. 2 , no. 1 , 1 . https://doi.org/10.22191/nejcs/vol2/iss1/1
Abstract: We present an English translation and discussion of an essay that a Japanese physicist, Torahiko Terada, wrote in 1922. In the essay, he described the waiting-time paradox, also called the bus paradox, which is a known mathematical phenomenon in queuing theory, stochastic processes, and modern temporal network analysis. He also observed and analyzed data on Tokyo City trams to verify the relevance of the waiting-time paradox to busy passengers in Tokyo at the time. This essay seems to be one of the earliest documentations of the waiting-time paradox in a sufficiently scientific manner.

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