The Road and Hydraulic Engineering Division (DWW) of the Directorate-General for Public Works and Water Management of the Dutch Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management requested a literature survey on the relation of tyre parameters to rolling resistance of road vehicle tyres. The objective of this literature survey is to find a possible answer to the question : How is the rolling resistance of heavy vehicle and passenger car tyres affected by various tyre and road parameters?, and to list an overview of the rolling resistance related research. The literature survey has been executed from week 41 until week 49 in 2001. Several large literature databases have been searched for recent (1990 up to and including 2001) papers regarding the rolling resistance of passenger car and heavy vehicle tyres and influential parameters, both tyre and road parameters. The rolling resistance of a tyre van be decreased by changing various parameters. The improvement induced by the various changes is not additive. In most cases other performances criteria do not permit the tyre designer to combine all the possible options. Therefor, before changing a parameter, its influence on active safety must be taken into account. (Author/publisher)
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