System reliability assessment is one of the major acts in the operation and maintenance of every industrial and service sector, which also holds true for maritime transportation system. The complexity of the maritime transportation system is a prime obstacle in the evaluation of the operational reliability of the system; mainly due to the fact that statistical data on the important parameters a...

Modifications to Vogel’s Approximation Method for obtaining initial solutions to the unbalanced transportation problem are described by many workers. This paper presents a simple and efficient method that is better than the existing methods, easy to understand and also can give an optimal solution. The proposed method, Improved Zero Point Method (IZPM) (see [13]), is used for solving unbalanced...

Abstract This article focuses on solving the fuzzy transportation problem using dual approach of simplex. method uses a strong ranking technique for iterative values trapezoidal numbers within problem. Because approach, (in which cost, demand, and supply appear as numbers) is transformed into crisp valued LPP (Linear Programming Problem) employed simplex procedure solving. The earlier task obta...