Transportation Science, Vol. 38, No. 3 (August 2004), pp. 343-356 (14 pages) Bounds and approximate formulae are developed for the average optimum distance of the transportation linear programming ...

The compressibility of natural gas allows the use of line pack to compensate for fluctuations of gas demand. On the basis of forecast consumption, a linear-programming model can yield a plan for ...

The problem of determining simultaneously the flows of primary products through processors to the market as final products has been formulated alternatively as a transhipment model by King and Logan ...