A new strategy for the undirected two-commodity maximum flow problem

Abstract. We address the two-commodity maximum flow problem on undirected networks. As a result of a change of variables, we introduce a new formulation that solves the problem through classical maximum flow techniques with only one-commodity. Therefore, a general strategy, based on this change of variables, is defined to deal with other undirected multi-commodity problems. Finally, we extend the single objective problem to a bicriteria environment. We show that the set of efficient solutions of the biobjective undirected two-commodity maximum flow problem is the set of alternative optimum solutions of the undirected two-commodity maximum flow problem. In addition, we prove that the set of efficient extreme points in the objective space has, at most, cardinality two.