Bicriteria Transportation Problem

Y. P. Aneja and K. P. K. Nair
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Y. P. Aneja: University of New Brunswick
K. P. K. Nair: University of New Brunswick

Management Science, 1979, vol. 25, issue 1, 73-78

Abstract: In a transportation problem, generally, a single criterion of minimizing the total cost is considered. But in certain practical situations two or more objectives are relevant. For example, the objectives may be minimizations of total cost, consumption of certain scarce resources such as energy, total deterioration of goods during transportation, etc. Clearly, this problem can be solved using any of the multiobjective linear programming techniques; but the computational efforts needed would be prohibitive in many cases. The computational complexity in these techniques arises from the fact that each of the methods finds the set of nondominated extreme points in the solution space where such extreme points are, generally, many. Therefore, this paper develops a method of finding the nondominated extreme points in the criteria space. Such extreme points in the criteria space would be generally less and only these are needed while choosing a nondominated solution for implementation. The method involves a parametric search in the criteria space. Although the method is developed with respect to a bicriteria transportation problem, it is applicable to any bicriteria linear program in general. The bottleneck criterion included as a third objective is particularly significant in time bound transportation schedules. A numerical example is included.

Keywords: programming: multiple criteria; transportation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1979
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