Development of Heuristic Procedures to Analyze the Production-Transportation Problem.
Abstract
A methodology has been developed to systematically analyze a production-transportation problem subject to stochastic demand. First the problem is transformed into a network flow equivalent. Then flow data are generated through a series of simulation runs, using a simulation program developed around the out-of-kilter algorithm, GASP II subroutines, and demand determined by Monte Carlo procedures. The data are then interpreted using developed procedures to determine plant market pairs which could be candidates for increase/decrease of flow depending on established conditions. An example problem is provided to demonstrate the usefulness of the methodology and the data available after a simulation run. The example problem has been constructed with production costs and transportation costs between any plant-market pair being nonlinear.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 1975
- Accession Number
- ADA016984
Entities
People
- Edward J. Worrel Iii
- Gary L. Hogg
Organizations
- Construction Engineering Research Laboratory