Study of Initial Basic Feasible solution of Transportation Problem

Abstract

In this paper our aim is to find the best initial basic feasible solution. To fulfill this aim 7 methods are used to find the initial basic feasible solution of transportation problem. After comparing these methods we concluded that RED (Revised Distribution Method) is suitable for finding optimal basic feasible solution. Transportation problem (TP), that is a special class of the linear programming (LP) in the operation research (OR). The main objective of transportation problem solution methods is to minimize the cost or the time of transportation. So RED method solve this purpose