<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Transportation problem is one of the models of Linear Programming problem. It deals with the situation in which a commodity from several sources is shipped to different destinations with the main objective to minimize the total shipping cost. There are three well-known methods namely, North West Corner Method Least Cost Method, Vogel’s Approximation Method to find the initial basic feasible solution of a transportation problem. In this paper, we present some statistical methods for finding the initial basic feasible solution. We use three statistical tools: arithmetic and harmonic mean and median. We present numerical examples, and we compare these results with other classical methods.</p></abstract>

Transportation problem is one of the models of Linear Programming problem. It deals with the situation in which a commodity from several sources is shipped to different destinations with the main objective to minimize the total shipping cost. There are three well-known methods namely, North West Corner Method Least Cost Method, Vogel’s Approximation Method to find the initial basic feasible solution of a transportation problem. In this paper, we present some statistical methods for finding the initial basic feasible solution. We use three statistical tools: arithmetic and harmonic mean and median. We present numerical examples, and we compare these results with other classical methods.

Statistical Methods for Solving Transportation Problems

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Transportation problem is one of the models of Linear Programming problem. It deals with the situation in which a commodity from several sources is shipped to...

Statistical Methods for Solving Transportation Problems

Published Online: Jul 23, 2019

Page range: 10 - 13

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/kbo-2019-0049

Keywords
transportation problem, initial basic solution, statistical methods

© 2019 Alina Baboş, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Statistical Methods for Solving Transportation Problems

Published Online: Jul 23, 2019

Page range: 10 - 13

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/kbo-2019-0049

Keywordstransportation problem, initial basic solution, statistical methods

© 2019 Alina Baboş, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
transportation problem, initial basic solution, statistical methods