A comparative study of linear programming and nonlinear programming
models of the ship speed optimisation problem in maritime transportation
Abstract
The performance of the widely used nonlinear programming model of the
ship speed problem in maritime transportation is compared with the
performance of the hardly employed linear programming model, originally
developed by Brown et al. (2007). The comparison basis employs a case
study, namely that of the SEAFIGHTER patrol boat of the US Navy. Results
obtained by the computational implementation of the linear programming
and nonlinear programming models in the LINGO demonstrate that the
performance of the nonlinear programming model is inferior to that of
the linnear programming model.