You have just started working as a dispatcher for Cross-Country Transport, a new

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You have just started working as a dispatcher for Cross-Country Transport, a new trucking and delivery service based in Cleveland, Ohio. Your first assignment is to plan a delivery of office equipment and furniture from Elkhart, Indiana (at the corner of E. Indiana Ave. and Prairie Street) to Hagerstown, Maryland (corner of Eastern Blvd. N. and Potomac Ave.). To guide your trucker, you need to know the most efficient route between the two cities. Use MapQuest to find the route that is the shortest distance between the two cities. Use MapQuest again to find the route that takes the least time. Compare the results. Which route should Cross-Country use?

Explanation / Answer

The difference between the shortest distance between any two cities and the efficient route is the travel time absorbed by the congestion of vehicle flow on the shortest distance route.

Cross-country should use that route which has less traffic flow of vehicles. Both the results are the same in this case. Hence Cross-country should take the shortest route to the destination as given in mapquest.

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