A reliable transportation problem

Abdul Quddoos

doi:10.24294/tm.v1i2.570

A reliable transportation problem

Abdul Quddoos

Article ID: 570
Vol 2, Issue 1, 2019

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Abstract

In today’s market, managers are being pressurized to deliver the product in a reliable and cost effective manner. The aim of the present work is to model a transportation problem where decision maker has a flexibility to set his own reliability level when he minimizes the overall transportation cost. To achieve this goal, the overall reliability of transportation system is calculated and a mathematical model of transportation problem is formulated. A numerical experiment is also conducted to illustrate the proposed model.

Keywords

Transportation Problem; reliability

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.24294/tm.v1i2.570