| Article ID: | iaor20053333 |
| Country: | Cuba |
| Volume: | 25 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Start Page Number: | 119 |
| End Page Number: | 130 |
| Publication Date: | May 2004 |
| Journal: | Revista de Investigacin Operacional |
| Authors: | Hernndez R. Jos G., Garca G. Mar, J. |
There are many approaches to solving the single product transportation problem, which is now a standard problem in operational research. The multicommodity transportation problem is less well studied, although special cases are known and some approaches have assimiliated the multicommodity problem into a single commodity problem. In this paper we approach the general multicommodity problem using global optimisation, to obtain an approximate solution.