The public will increasingly demand its security, integrity, and its many conveniences such as reduced queuing time for payments using payWave, PayPass, or ExpressPay, with a plastic card or mobile phone.

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Polls will open at 06:30 local time (10:30 GMT) and close 10 hours later, although they will stay open until all those queuing at closing time have voted.

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Though the lines are not as long as the Academy may have hoped, any time spent queuing for the apocalypse somewhat deadens its impact.

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In particular aviation planners are focusing on ways of cutting the amount of time planes spend queuing to take off and land, in the process burning large and unnecessary amounts of fuel (IATA estimates that airlines could cut their annual CO2 emissions by 12 percent if air-traffic control operations were more efficient).

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Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board said many clinics opened earlier than the intended 10:00 BST start time as people began queuing as early as 08:30 BST.

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With the exception of the academic and somewhat pedantic study of queuing theory, there's little specifically taught about valuing customer time so much as exploiting it.

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In several places, hundreds of claimants queuing outside office were brought into temporary waiting rooms 20-30 at a time.

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