In general terms, ____ accounts for about 6% of u.s. gross domestic product.
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Transportation Management
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The primary advantage for motor carriers is ____.
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Flexibility
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______ is a problem in which the total number of units demanded is equal to the total number of supply units available.
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Balanced transportation problem
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______ is a condition that occurs when the solution to a transportation problem has occupied routes (cells) that are less than the (number of origins + the number of destinations – 1).
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Degeneracy
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______ is a problem in which the total number of supply units available is greater than the demand requirements.
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Unbalanced transportation problem
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If ______ exists, it is impossible to apply the stepping stone method and it is impossible to trace a closed path for one or more of the unoccupied cells or routes.
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Degeneracy
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______ is a fictitious supply source created to arrive at a balanced transportation problem.
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Dummy supply sources
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The objective of this method is to achieve the lowest total cost, making this method more intuitively appealing.
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Matrix minimum cost
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______ reduces the number of computations and the time required to determine the optimal solution.
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Matrix minimum cost
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The ______ is a special case of linear programming problems in which the objective is to minimize the total cost of transporting goods from the various supply origins to the different demand destinations.
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Transportation model
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The ______ method is intended to generate improved solutions for transportation problems.
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Stepping stone
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In ______ method, an initial feasible solution to the transportation problem is obtained by allocating shipments beginning with the route that has the lowest unit cost of transportation.
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Matrix least cost
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Two methods that can be used to obtain the initial basic feasible solution are the northwest corner rule and the ______ method.
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Matrix minimum cost
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A problem in which the total number of supply units available is greater than the demand requirements is known as
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Unbalanced transportation problem
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the objective Transportation model is to _______ of transporting goods
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Minimize the total cost
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The term stepping stone refers to the occupied cells in the initial solution of the transportation matrix, which are used in arriving at an improved solution is known as
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Stepping stone method
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In the North West corner rule if the demand in the column is satisfied one must move to the _________.
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Right cell in the next column.
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Matrix least cost method is an initial feasible solution to the transportation problem is obtained by allocating shipments
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True
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A fictitious supply source created to arrive at a balanced transportation problem known as
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Dummy supply sources
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_______ is a fictitious demand destination created to arrive at a balanced transportation problem
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Dummy demand destinations
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The total number of different states of the same energy is known as
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Degeneracy
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A problem in which the total number of units demanded is equal to the total number of supply units available is known as
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Balanced transportation problem
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