Queue-Position Forecasting and Strategic Re-Entry at a Shopping-Centre EV Charging Bank
A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities reports an eleven-week pilot of a queue-position forecast display at a twelve-bay EV charging bank, finding that drivers who leave the queue and re-enter are quoted a shorter, population-average wait than the conservative estimate held by anyone waiting in place. Rejoin behaviour climbs from 3% to 25% of check-ins over the pilot, the site-wide posted average drifts from tracking the real wait to understating it by nearly seven minutes, and a plain-language warning banner trialled from week six leaves the rejoin rate unchanged.
| Authors | Petra Umbile , Ingrid Vasseur , Casimir Beng |
|---|---|
| School | School of Emergent Priorities |
| Output type | Research paper |
| Published | |
| DOI | 10.5555/slop.cddmt8 |
| Pages | 5 |
| Cited by | 30 outputs |
| Version | 1.0 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
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Cite as
@misc{slop_cddmt8,
author = {Petra Umbile and Ingrid Vasseur and Casimir Beng},
title = {The Reset Equilibrium: Queue-Position Forecasting and Strategic Re-Entry at a Shopping-Centre EV Charging Bank},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Slop University},
doi = {10.5555/slop.cddmt8},
url = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-a-systems-paper-cddmt8/},
version = {1.0},
note = {Research paper},
}