A pivot generation approach for the classical Hitchcock transportation problem

Sigrun Dewess

International Journal of Operational Research, 2014, vol. 19, issue 3, 302-314

Abstract: The Hitchcock transportation problem is a widely studied and used problem. In this paper, a new approach based on a brief method to pivot in dual simplex method in the particular case of a transportation problem is briefly described and a small instance is solved to illustrate the proposed procedure. Computational results show that the new approach can be significantly faster than previous solution methods for small to medium-sized instances.

Keywords: Hitchcock transportation problem; pivot generation; linear programming; shipment scheduling. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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