A review of flexible job shop scheduling problems considering transportation vehicles

• FJSP_PT jointly optimizes machine processing and transportation vehicle scheduling, capturing real-world flexible manufacturing logistics. • The review provides a systematic taxonomy of solution approaches: exact algorithms, heuristics, metaheuristics, and swarm intelligence algorithms. • Statistical analysis of literature up to 2023 reveals increasing research interest and diverse algorithmic developments for FJSP_PT. • The coupling of processing and transportation stages remains a central challenge, driving future research toward more efficient integrated scheduling methods.