ABC is an LTL (less-than-truckload) trucking company that delivers loads on a daily basis to five customers. The following list provides the customers associated with each route:

RouteCustomers served on the route

1...........................................1,2,3,4

2.............................................4,3,5

3.............................................1,2,5

4.............................................2,3,5

5..............................................1,4,2

6...............................................1,3,5

The segments of each route are dictated by the capacity of the truck delivering the loads. For example, on route 1, the capacity of the truck is sufficient to deliver the loads to customers 1,2 ,3, and 4 only. The following table lists distances (in miles) among the truck terminal (ABC) and the customers.

The objective is to determine the least distance needed to make the daily deliveries to all five customers. Though the solution may result in a customer being served by more than one route, the implementation phase will use only one such route. Formulate the problem as an ILP and find the optimum solution.

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Miles from i lo j ABC 234 5 ABC 10 12 16 10 12 16 10 20 32 8 14 17 21 10 20 21 0 15 18 0 15 18