Summary:
In today's competitive world, the survival of any organization requires special attention to various dimensions of sustainability and its development. Sustainable development is a comprehensive strategy to meet the needs of current and future generations according to economic, social and environmental considerations. Achieving sustainability requires making the right decisions for the organization's senior managers. In this regard, decision-making based on more accurate understanding of the factors affecting sustainability is essential. This article intends to provide a technique for evaluating the factors affecting sustainable development, to accurately identify the factors affecting sustainability and the interaction between them in the fuel transportation system of the National Iranian Petroleum Products Distribution Company. In this technique, the combined approach of two methods of interpretive structural modeling (ISM) and fuzzy DEMATEL (FDEMATEL) has been used. Based on the combination of the results of these two methods, the nature, importance and priority of the factors affecting sustainability were determined. Among the 10 factors affecting sustainability of the fuel distribution system, the company brand and fuel quality had very little effect on sustainability and were eliminated. In addition, by determining the impact factor of factors and their leveling, the relationship between factors and the intensity of these relationships was determined and for sustainable development, the possibility of more accurate decision-making of senior managers of the organization was provided.