MIT/CalTrans study finds pavement-vehicle interaction accounts for 1% of overall fuel consumption on California highways
Green Car Congress
MARCH 1, 2016
dissipating energy due to deformation of the pavement structure)—results in wasted fuel because the dissipated energy does not contribute to the vehicle’s forward movement. Most of the world is looking from the tires up to understand how to produce less greenhouse gas,” Tom Pyle, pavement management engineer with Caltrans, told ENR.
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