[AM11-5] The Classic Transportation Problem

The Classic Transportation Problem considers minimizing the cost of getting an object or subject from origin to destination.

External resources

• Song, Y. (2017). The Classic Transportation Problem. The Geographic Information Science & Technology Body of Knowledge (4th Quarter 2017 Edition), John P. Wilson (ed.). DOI: 10.22224/gistbok/2017.4.7

Learning outcomes

• 40 - Explain why, if supply equals demand, there will always be a feasible solution to the Classic Transportation Problem
  Explain why, if supply equals demand, there will always be a feasible solution to the Classic Transportation Problem
• 41 - Exemplify the Classic Transportation Problem
  Exemplify the Classic Transportation Problem
• 42 - Demonstrate how the Classic Transportation Problem can be structured as a linear program
  Demonstrate how the Classic Transportation Problem can be structured as a linear program
• 43 - Implement the Transportation Simplex method to determine the optimal solution
  Implement the Transportation Simplex method to determine the optimal solution

Self assessment

Outgoing relations

• [AM11-5] The Classic Transportation Problem subclassof [AM11] Network analysis

Contributors

• Rob Lemmens
  University of Twente, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC)
  https://research.utwente.nl/en/persons/rob-lemmens