Survey of Transportation Problems

This review paper considered the operational management on the transportation and distribution problem of various things. The main objective is to maximize profit along with minimum cost, time and distance. There is a limitless application of Transportation problem in practical life in the field of operational research. In this review paper we propose an effective improvement of algorithms in the solution procedure to get a prominent initial basic feasible solution for TPs. For obtaining the best solutions various algorithms are used such as NWCR, LCM, Vogel approximation Method, SS Method, Modified Distribution Method, BCM and MM method. The best optimal initial basic solution is obtained by these methods. Specially, TP deals with the advantages of both waterways and land transportation, waterways for transporting heavy goods or goods in bulk amount over long distances, land transportation for fetching and distributing over small to medium distances. To tackle the problem, a heuristic algorithm is chosen and tested experimentally. Final results show that the algorithm is very effective on a set of standard instances, quickly achieving most favorable solutions.