Economic Viability of an Alternative Internal Road Network in Tripura : An Application of Shortest Path Algorithm

This paper evaluates the economic viability of the demand by the people of Tripura for an alternative road network. After partition in 1947, this state had lost its traditional connectivity with mainland India and overnight became a geographically sequester land. The presence of hilly terrain and mountainous landscape further created obstacle in the development of railways for this region. Hence, the transportation network is developed mainly as road transportation and the area of the present research is basically an attempt to evaluate a long standing demand of the Government of Tripura as well as the people of this small state who have been suffering from communication bottleneck. This study has utilized the Floyd's algorithm of shortest path method in real road network of Tripura to test its feasibility in terms of cost-benefit analysis taking into consideration the regional demand and its possible benefits arising out of such a study