Stewart, TJIttmann, HW2008-09-042008-09-041979Stewart, TJ and Ittmann, HW. 1979. Two-stage optimization in a transportation problem. The Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 30(10), pp 897-9040030-3623http://hdl.handle.net/10204/2455Copyright: 1979 Palgrave Macmillan Journals on behalf of the Operational Research SocietyA study of the economic distribution of maize throughout South Africa is reported. Although the problem of minimizing total transportation costs in such a situation is a classical one, and its solution is well known, there was in this case a high degree of degeneracy in the system and thus the solution was not unique. Also, since a user is required to pay his own transportation costs, the various optimal solutions were not equivalent. A secondary problem thus arose, viz. that of selecting from these optimal solutions the one which would be fairest to all users. A heuristic and a goal programming method for solving thisenTransportation costsDistributionArticleStewart, T., & Ittmann, H. (1979). Two-stage optimization in a transportation problem. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/2455Stewart, TJ, and HW Ittmann "Two-stage optimization in a transportation problem." (1979) http://hdl.handle.net/10204/2455Stewart T, Ittmann H. Two-stage optimization in a transportation problem. 1979; http://hdl.handle.net/10204/2455.TY - Article AU - Stewart, TJ AU - Ittmann, HW AB - A study of the economic distribution of maize throughout South Africa is reported. Although the problem of minimizing total transportation costs in such a situation is a classical one, and its solution is well known, there was in this case a high degree of degeneracy in the system and thus the solution was not unique. Also, since a user is required to pay his own transportation costs, the various optimal solutions were not equivalent. A secondary problem thus arose, viz. that of selecting from these optimal solutions the one which would be fairest to all users. A heuristic and a goal programming method for solving this DA - 1979 DB - ResearchSpace DP - CSIR KW - Transportation costs KW - Distribution LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 1979 SM - 0030-3623 T1 - Two-stage optimization in a transportation problem TI - Two-stage optimization in a transportation problem UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/2455 ER -