Purpose: The ability to measure and assess “quality” is essential in building and maintaining a safe and effective transportation system. Attaining acceptable quality outcomes in transportation projects has been a reoccurring problem at both the federal and state levels, at least partially,...

The blocking probability is commonly used to evaluate the quality-of-service (QoS) offered by dialup Internet Service Providers (ISPs). Unfortunately, dialup ISPs employ no blocking standards or thresholds. This raises questions as to exactly how providers measure and evaluate QoS with respect...