Letter to the Editor—The Use of Row Values in Solution of the Transportation Problem

A computational procedure for solving the transportation problem by hand that ordinarily has been overlooked is one involving only the computation of row values (or column values if fewer columns than rows) after each iteration instead of both row and column values as required by Dantzig's method [Dantzig, G. B. 1951. Application of the simplex method to a transportation problem. Chap 23 in Koopman's Activity Analyses of Production and Allocation. Wiley, New York.].