Methodology for Selecting Road Construction Equipment in Conditions of Insufficient Information

The choice of the model is one of the determining factors within the concept of assessing the efficiency of equipment during its full life cycle. The objective of this work is to justify the application of the methodology for assessing the competitiveness and quality of equipment as applied to road construction machines, improved by the authors and proposed for selecting machines under conditions of partial uncertainty and lack of information. The article methodologically substantiates the information sets to assess the equipment at the selection stage, presents the results of studies of changes in the cost of road construction machines in the secondary market of the Russian Federation, offers assessment approaches to determining the quality and performance of products, and provides a final algorithm of an integral assessment based on individual competitiveness indicators. Methodologically, the proposed method may be of interest when assessing other types and classes of equipment under similar assessment conditions.