A survey of some mathematical programming models in transportation

Transportation problems constitute a fertile domain for the application of mathematical programming models and nonlinear optimization techniques, distribution problems, entropy models, traffic assignment problems and many others are good examples of this assertion. This paper provides a summary overview of the main modeling approaches in transportation and the related optimization models, symmetric and asymmetric, and an overview on the state-of-the-art of the origin–destination adjustment problems and the related bilevel optimization methods.