Hitchcock transportation problem

Hitchcock transportation problem

[¦hich‚käk ‚tranz·pər′tā·shən ‚präb·ləm] (mathematics) The problem in linear programming of minimizing the cost of moving ships between two configurations in both of which there is a specified number of ships in each of a finite number of ports, when the costs of moving one ship from each of the ports in the first configuration to each of the ports in the second are specified.