Electronic Banking and Banks Counter Queue Density (Case study on the criteria of the queues in traditional and electronic banking)

Abstract

The phenomenon of waiting in queues, with the increase in population density and the increasing urbanization of societies, is expanding more than ever before. Queuing theory is of great importance as a statistical technique for problem solving and system analyzing. Banks, as one of the most significant economic institutions, play an important role in monetary policy implementation (expansion and contraction) of the government. Compared with developed countries, Iranian banks are extremely busy. This may be one of the first things that attracts one's attention on first arriving in a foreign country. In order to reduce crowdedness in the banks, useful instruments such as electronic banking can be used. Using new technologies in the field of economics is one of the indices of the establishment of the electronic government and banking as well as the change in defining the society and power. To assess the role of electronic banking in reducing the density of the bank counter queues, the data on two banking systems (traditional and electronic banking) were collected during six working days from the branches of Zanjan Melli Bank (Zanjan Branch office). Following the analysis of the data within the framework of queuing system models, the results indicating the role of electronic banking in reducing the density of Bank Melli counter queues were obtained.

Keywords

• electronic banking
• queuing theory
• bank melli iran
• electronic government