This document provides an overview of transportation modeling and several methods for solving transportation problems:
(D) Des Moines
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(1) The Northwest-Corner Rule which allocates units starting from the upper left cell, exhausting each row and column sequentially.
(E) Evansville
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(2) The Intuitive Lowest-Cost Method which assigns units to the lowest cost cell, exhausting rows and columns, until all units are allocated.
(F) Fort Lauderdale
(3) The Stepping-Stone Method which evaluates unused cells to find a path with the most negative improvement index, then adjusts cell costs along that path to find