A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium in which a transportation operation control program is stored, the program causing a computer to execute:
- calculating, based on information representing reliability relating to a transportation cost, a corrected cost obtained by correcting the transportation cost, the transportation cost being required for a transportation operation of transporting an article from a transportation source site to a transportation destination site among a plurality of sites;
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- calculating a importance degree of the transportation operation for a combination, based on the presence status information and the corrected cost, the presence status information representing presence statuses of the articles at the transportation source site and the transportation destination site.