The Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 41, No. 4 (Apr., 1990), pp. 291-297 (7 pages) The Hitchcock transportation problem is perhaps one of the `most solved' linear programming problems ...

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 ...

Integer linear programming can help find the answer to a variety of real-world problems. Now researchers have found a much faster way to do it.