“…Various methods are available to solve the transportation problem to obtain an optimal solution [16]. Typical/well-known transportation methods include the stepping stone method [2] (Charnes and Cooper, 1954), the modified distribution method (Dantzig, 1963), the modified stepping-stone method (Shih, 1987), the simplex-type algorithm (Arsham and Kahn, 1989) and the dual-matrix approach (Ji and Chu, 2002). Glover et al (1974) presented a detailed computational comparison of basic solution algorithms for solving the transportation problems [6], [18].…”