A linear continuous transportation problem (Q1123553)

The carriage of soil from one plane region to another, under some physical and economical constraints, is formulated as a linear continuous transportation problem. By a discretization scheme this problem is transformed to a special linear programming problem. A convergence theorem is proved by the help of several lemmas. The approximation scheme is illustrated on a numerical example of an engineering problem. For solving the problem the MPSX programming system of IBM is used. Obtained features make the computational results satisfactory for practical purposes.