Transportation networks that are used to ship commodities from their production centres to their markets can be most effectively analysed when viewed as digraphs that possess additional structure. The resulting theory has a wide range of interesting applications and ramifications. We present here the basic elements of this important topic.
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(2008). Flows in Networks. In: Graph Theory. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol 244. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-970-5_7
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