Tires for commercial vehicles are optimized to be both fuel efficient and long lasting. A low noise design provides generally little incentive to buy. The noise reduction potential of tires for commercial vehicles is not sufficiently used as the comprehensive test of 32 tires shows.
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Determination of rolling noise and rolling-resistance coefficients and conduct of wet-surface brake tests on utility-vehicle tires
Number of pages
42
Year of publication
Author(s)
Walter Reithmaier, Stefan Kretschmer, Branislav Savic
Language
English
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Project No. (FKZ)
299 54 114
Publisher
Umweltbundesamt
File size
1160 KB
Price
0,00 €
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not available
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