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Optimizing Movement of Students from Hostels to Lecture Rooms in a Potential World Class University Using Transportation Model
Department of Mathematics, Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria
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Department of Mechanical Engineering Science, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Department of Computer Science and Management Information Systems, Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria
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Department of Computer Science and Management Information Systems, Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria
1 Department of Mathematics, Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria
2 Department of Mechanical Engineering Science, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa
3 Department of Computer Science and Management Information Systems, Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria
4 Department of Computer Science and Management Information Systems, Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria
Transportation issue is one of the significant zones of utilization of Linear Programming Model. In this paper, transportation model is utilized to decide an ideal answer for the transportation issue in a run of the mill world class university utilizing Covenant University as a contextual analysis. Covenant University is a potential world class University. The quick development of Covenant University Campus over the most recent fourteen years affects its transportation framework. This paper particularly takes a gander at streamlining the time spent by the students moving from their lodgings to lecture rooms. Google guide was utilized to figure the separation and time between every cause and every goal. North-west corner technique, Least Cost strategy and Vogel’s estimation technique were utilized to decide the underlying fundamental plausible arrangement (initial feasible solution) and MODI strategy was utilized to locate the ideal arrangement (optimal solution). The last outcome demonstrates that the development of understudies from hostel to lecture rooms can be streamlined if the total time spent is decreased.
KeywordsTransportation ModelWorld Class UniversityOptimization
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