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As construction machinery, pavers occupy a significant place in civil engineering projects, so their selection, depending on a road category, is a very important activity. The objective of this paper is to develop an intelligent Fuzzy MCDM (Multi-Criteria Decision-Making) model, which consists of the integration of D and Z numbers for the selection of construction machinery. The IMF D-SWARA (Improved Fuzzy D Step-Wise Weight Assessment Ratio Analysis) method was used to determine weighting coefficients. A novel Fuzzy ARAS-Z (Additive Ratio Assessment) method has been developed to determine an adequate paver for a lower category of roads (asphalt width up to 5 m), which represents an important contribution and novelty of the paper. A total of 10 alternatives were evaluated based on 16 criteria which were classified into 4 main groups. The results have shown that the alternative A8\u2014SUPER 1300-3 represents a paver with the best characteristics for the considered set of parameters. After that, verification tests were calculated, and they include a comparative analysis with four other MCDM methods based on Z numbers, a change in the normalization procedure, and the impact of changing the size of an initial fuzzy matrix. 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