ENGINEER MODELS PAVEMENT VEHICLE FUEL EFFICIENCY

摘要

As part of the Denmark C02 Energy Efficiency (COOEE) project, Danish Road Directorate officials have enlisted Austin, Texas-based mainline and precast concrete pavement specialist Transtec Group to identify measures of decreasing vehicles' resistance to motion or rolling resistance. Chief Engineer Dr. Robert Rasmussen, P.E. attributes part of the resistance to texture, where tiny pavement bumps and indentations interact with tires-the mechanics of which have yet to be widely studied.