New Procedure of Finding an Initial Basic Feasible Solution of the Time Minimizing Transportation Problems

Mollah Mesbahuddin Ahmed¹, Md. Amirul Islam¹, Momotaz Katun², Sabiha Yesmin¹, Md. Sharif Uddin¹

¹Department of Mathematics, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
²Department of Mathematics, Bangladesh University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

DOI: 10.4236/ojapps.2015.510062                

Abstract

Minimization of transportation time is a great concern of the transportation problems like the cost minimizing transportation problems. In this writing, a transportation algorithm is developed and applied to obtain an Initial Basic Feasible Solution (IBFS) of transportation problems in minimizing transportation time. The developed method has also been illustrated numerically to test the efficiency of the method where it is observed that the proposed method yields a better result.

Keywords

Transportation Problem, Initial Basic Feasible Solution, Minimizing, Transportation Time

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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