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On minimizing the duration of transportation

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The problem of minimizing the duration of transportation has been studied. The problem has been reduced to a goal programming-type problem which readily lends itself to solution by the standard transportation method. This approach to the solution of the problem is very much different from all other existing ones.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, B.I.T.S., 333 031, Pilani, India

    Satya Prakash

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Prakash, S. On minimizing the duration of transportation. Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. (Math. Sci.) 91, 53–57 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02837260

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