Question

1. Why are transportation problems given this name?

2. What is an identifying feature of transportation problems?

3. How does the form of a fixed-requirement constraint differ from that of a resource constraint?

Answer 1

1. Transportation problem is a distribution-type problem, in which the  goal is to decide how to transfer goods from various source locations to various destination locations with minimal costs or maximum profit. this name is given because it is specifically used in transportation and logistics industry for maximising efficiency and profit.

2. Transportation problems are identified as they have sorce locations and destinations and there is cost associated which has to be minimised using linear programming.

3. fixed requirement constraint means there is a fixed requirement of goods at each destination

resource constraints means there is limit to the quantity of resource availble at a certain location