eng Science and Education Publishing American Journal of Modeling and Optimization 2014-09-08 2 3 77 83 10.12691/ajmo-2-3-3 AJMO2014233 article Vishwa Nath Maurya prof.drvnmaurya@gmail.com 1 2 Ram Bilas Misra 3 Chandra K. Jaggi 4 Avadhesh Kumar Maurya 5 Department of Mathematics & Statistics, School of Science & Technology, The University of Fiji, Fiji Islands SUNY, Korea & Ex Vice-Chancellor, Avadh University, India Department of Operations Research, University of Delhi, India Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering Lucknow Institute of Technology, U.P. Technical University, India In this paper some general transportation models have been discussed and particularly a multi-choice cost stochastic transportation problem (STP) has been reviewed in the light of progressive research works of previous noteworthy researchers. In addition, an analytical approach for the optimal solution (OS) of the proposed stochastic transportation problem has been demonstrated. The analytical method proposed by us is not only heuristic but also a generalization in threefold. We remark here that some unnecessary complications involved previously have been removed in our proposed method. Finally, by way of demonstrating a numerical illustration some significant conclusive observations have also been drawn in order to highlight the threefold feature. http://pubs.sciepub.com/ajmo/2/3/3/ajmo-2-3-3.pdf deterministic transportation problem (DTP) stochastic transportation problem (STP) multi-choice cost linear programming problem (LPP) mixed-integer programming problem (MIPP) initial basic feasible solution (IBFS) optimal solution (OS)