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Network Flow Models: Use in Rural Freight Transportation Analysis and a Comparison with Linear Programming

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  • Fuller, Stephen
  • Shanmugham, Chiyyarath

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The logistical efficiency and viability of the rural transportation system is a growing concern of agricultural producers, transportation regulators, and policy makers. Railroad facility limitations, abandonment of railroad track, deterioration of the rural road system, and changing transportation rate structures are examples of issues for which solutions and evaluations are required. To plan and evaluate transportation alternatives, decision makers need a research tool with an ability to answer numerous “what if†types of questions. Often the model must include a spatial and/or temporal dimension, in addition to microscopic detail of the transportation and marketing system. Therefore, large models are needed and efficiency of computer solution procedures becomes a relevant consideration. The flexibility of the research tool to include necessary system realism may also become an important concern.

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  • Fuller, Stephen & Shanmugham, Chiyyarath, 1978. "Network Flow Models: Use in Rural Freight Transportation Analysis and a Comparison with Linear Programming," Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Cambridge University Press, vol. 10(2), pages 183-188, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:jagaec:v:10:y:1978:i:02:p:183-188_01
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    1. Lemke, Kenneth & Babcock, Michael W., 1987. "Impact of Rail Mergers on Kansas Export Wheat Rail Rates and Costs," Journal of the Transportation Research Forum, Transportation Research Forum, vol. 28(1).
    2. Fuller, Stephen W. & Sorenson, L. Orlo & Johnson, Marc A. & Oehrtman, Robert L., 1981. "Alternative Wheat Collection And Transportation Systems For The Southern U.S. Plains," Western Journal of Agricultural Economics, Western Agricultural Economics Association, vol. 6(1), pages 1-12, July.
    3. Fuller, Stephen & Sorenson, Orlo & Johnson, Marc & Oehrtman, Robert, 1980. "Alternative Export Wheat Distribution Systems For The Southern U. S. Plains," 1980 Annual Meeting, July 27-30, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois 278481, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association).
    4. Ming H. Chow & Michael W. Babcock & L. Orlo Sorenson, 1986. "Analysis of structural changes in a grain logistics system: Trainload facilities and intermodal competition in northwest Kansas," Agribusiness, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 2(3), pages 279-292.
    5. Chow, Ming H. & Sorenson, L. Orlo & Babcock, Michael W., 1984. "Economic Impacts of Grain Marketing Structural Manses on export Wheat Logistics System in Northwest Kansas," 1984 Annual Meeting, August 5-8, Ithaca, New York 279036, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association).
    6. Larry D. Makus & Stephen Fuller, 1987. "Locational shifts in US export grain demand and their effect on the export marketing system," Agribusiness, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 3(2), pages 151-167.

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