A new approach for solving Multi-commodity and bounded network transportation problem

Document Type : Original Paper

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Department of Mathematics, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz-Iran

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to present a new method for solving multi-commodity and bounded transportation networks in optimization problems.

Multi-commodity and bounded transport networks with the aim of minimizing the total cost of transporting goods in the network, is an important and widely used issue in optimization problems.

Two very important and key features of multi-commodities and bounded are examined in different articles

and have provided algorithms to solve it.

We are ,based on the network simplex method, offer an innovative method without any complexity to obtain the solutions of multi-commodity and bounded transportation networks problems.

At the end, , the efficiency of this method is shown with some numerical examples.

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