• M.Bharathi
• Dr.M.Kavitha

The Transportation algorithm minimizes the cost of transporting things from m origins to n purposes along m*n direct routes from origin to the purpose. There are three methods to solve the transportation problem and their solution can be further improved using the Modified Distribution Method (MODI Method). i.e. when a number of allocations less than m+n-1. In this case, we have to make the number of allocations equal to m+n-1. To remove degeneracy we allocate some cells with dummy allocations, whose value is nearly equal to zero. But, till now there is no specific rule for allocating these cells. In this study, a specific method has been proposed to remove this problem of degeneracy. Thus this study helps to remove the major bottleneck from the transportation algorithm.

Transportation Problem, Modified Distribution Method, Vogel Method.

"A STUDY ON INITIAL SOLUTION OF A TRANSPORTATION PROBLEM", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.288-291, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906P44.pdf

"A STUDY ON INITIAL SOLUTION OF A TRANSPORTATION PROBLEM", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp288-291, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906P44.pdf