A Novel Hybrid Genetic Algorithm For The Two-Stage Transportation Problem With Fixed Charges Associated To The Routes

This paper concerns the two-stage transportation problem with fixed charges associated to the routes and proposes an efficient hybrid metaheuristic for distribution optimization. Our proposed hybrid algorithm incorporates a linear programming optimization problem into a genetic algorithm. Computational experiments were performed on a recent set of benchmark instances available from literature. The achieved computational results prove that our proposed solution approach is highly competitive in comparison with the existing approaches from the literature.