The Transportation and Assignment Problems

Two particularly important types of linear programming problems:

Transportation problem:

It receives this name because many of its applications involve how to determine the optimal way to transport goods. However, some of its important applications -such as production scheduling- actually have nothing to do with transportation.

Assignment problem:

Includes applications such as assigning people to tasks.

Although its applications appear to be quite different from those for the transportation problem, the issues of assignment can be considered a special case of the transportation problem.


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