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Business Mathematics
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Business Mathematics

by P. Mariappan
April 2015
Intermediate to advanced
800 pages
18h 38m
English
Pearson Education India
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CHAPTER 21

Transportation Problem

21.1  INTRODUCTION

The term “transportation” is somewhat deceptive, it appears to be restricted only to transportation systems, but the case is different. In fact, many of the resource allocation problems arising in production systems can be treated as transportation problems. Typical examples are production scheduling and transportation scheduling.

This problem was first introduced by Hitchcock (1941) and Koopmans (1947), and was solved by Dantzig (1947) using revised simplex method.

The Transportation Problem Can Be Described as Follows

Consider m origins (production centres/warehouses) and n destinations (market places) in a transportation system.

The origin i (i = 1, 2, …, m) has si (si > 0) units of single ...

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