A Rapid Dual Method for the Hitchcock Problem

B Harris
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B Harris: School of Public and Urban Policy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA

Environment and Planning A, 1979, vol. 11, issue 9, 1049-1054

Abstract: Building on the analysis of simple problems with three source zones, a general but approximate method for solving the transportation problem of linear programming is proposed. The method uses successive adjustments to the row dual variables, and rapidly reduces the number of columns which need to be considered. It offers promising computational capabilities for problems where the ratio of the number of columns to the number of rows is very large.

Date: 1979
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DOI: 10.1068/a111049

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