A computer technique for optimizing the sites and heights of transmission line towers-a dynamic programming approach

Abstract

Given the survey data of a transmission line route and the choice of available towers of suspension type and of angle towers a dynamic programming algorithm is described which chooses and sites the towers (the location and angle of the angle towers being prescribed) in such a way that the overall cost of running the line from one end of the route to the other, subject to all the established design constraints, is a minimum. The EMA program has been successfully run at the University of London Atlas Computer using exacting test data supplied by C.E.G.B. © 1968 The British Computer Society.