{"id":6325,"date":"2012-10-14T09:00:47","date_gmt":"2012-10-14T13:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=6325"},"modified":"2012-10-14T09:39:47","modified_gmt":"2012-10-14T13:39:47","slug":"a-change-in-queues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/a-change-in-queues\/","title":{"rendered":"A Change In Queues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/101412_1336_AChangeInQu1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"515\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a change happening in the nature of queues writes Benjamen Walker:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For the longest time the single serpentine line was the most popular form of queue. Instead of forming multiple queues everybody was in a single queue so that the person who waited the longest would be served next.<\/li>\n<li>Now however businesses and the government are experimenting with priority queues.<\/li>\n<li>In a priority queue you pay extra money to jump the queue in some way.<\/li>\n<li>This is becoming increasingly common in airports, where first class passenger are allowed to skip ahead of everybody else, and even on high ways, where people can pay a special toll to go on an express lane.<\/li>\n<li>Sea World has implemented a system where those who buy expensive special passes can leave the queue to do other things and then be alerted when it is their turn.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the morality of this practice and other places where you may soon be paying to get into a faster queue over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-19712847\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-19712847\">BBC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2012\/10\/the-spread-of-priority-queueing.html\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a change happening in the nature of queues writes Benjamen Walker: For the longest time the single serpentine line was the most popular form of queue. Instead of forming multiple queues everybody was in a single queue so that the person who waited the longest would be served next. Now however businesses and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/101412_1336_AChangeInQu1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6325"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6328,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6325\/revisions\/6328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}