Solving a fuzzy fixed charge solid transportation problem using batch transferring by new approaches in meta-heuristic

Nowadays finding effective solution for transportation problem is one of the main issues both in industries and academia. According to the real world, in this paper it is assumed that the products are transferred in batches in a fixed charge transportation problem. Furthermore, the fuzzy values are used according to the parameters value in the real world. In addition, six meta-heuristics are utilized in order to solve the presented model. Most of these algorithms are firstly used for a mathematical model in transportation problem literature. Because of the importance of tuning the parameters in solving the given problem, the Taguchi method is used. Finally, computational results with different problem sizes are studied and analyzed.