A node merging approach to the transhipment problem

Trust Tawanda ()
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Trust Tawanda: National University of Science and Technology

International Journal of System Assurance Engineering and Management, 2017, vol. 8, issue 1, No 35, 370-378

Abstract: Abstract In this paper, a new approach for solving transhipment model as a transportation model is developed and illustrated. The objective is to expose the transhipment problem to algorithms and methods that are transportation problem (TP) based. The principle of this method consists in merging source nodes with transhipment nodes, through utilization of all possible combination connections, transportation costs are summed up respectively. A numerical example is used to illustrate the approach. The least cost method (LCM) is used to solved the TP resulted from a transformed transhipment problem. Linear programming (LP) models are used as proof of correctness, thus we solve the original transhipment model as an LP problem. This study revealed that solutions from LCM are the same as that of LP formulated from the original transhipment model.

Keywords: Node merging; Transportation; Transhipment; Shipping; Least cost method; Linear Programming (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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