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The STP has uncertainty and hesitation in supply, demand, capacity of different modes of transport celled conveyance and when it has crisp cost it is known as IFSTP of type-1. From this concept, the generalized mathematical model for type-1 IFSTP is explained. To find out the optimal solution to type-1 IFSTPs, a single stage method called intuitionistic fuzzy min-zero min-cost method is presented. A real-life numerical example is presented to clarify the idea of the proposed method. Moreover, results and discussions, advantages of the proposed method, and future works are presented. 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