Method for Heavy Truck Platooning Order on Wet Roads Using Tire Tread Volumetric Void Percentage

A method for platooning tractor trailers (12, 20) is provided in which tread volumetric void percentages of first tractor tires (18) and second tractor tires (26) are determined. These tread volumetric void percentages are weighted at a ratio of at least 80/20 steer/drive and are used to determine t...

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Hauptverfasser:	TROWBRIDGE, Jeremy, ERDOGAN, Gurkan, RADULESCU, Robert Ciprian
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS RELATED TO TYRES PERFORMING OPERATIONS PHYSICS REPAIRING, OR CONNECTING VALVES TO, INFLATABLE ELASTIC BODIESIN GENERAL SIGNALLING TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS TRANSPORTING TYRE CHANGING OR REPAIRING TYRE INFLATION VEHICLE TYRES VEHICLES IN GENERAL
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Zusammenfassung:	A method for platooning tractor trailers (12, 20) is provided in which tread volumetric void percentages of first tractor tires (18) and second tractor tires (26) are determined. These tread volumetric void percentages are weighted at a ratio of at least 80/20 steer/drive and are used to determine tread volumetric void percentages of the first and second tractor trailers (12, 20). The first and second tractor trailers (12, 20) are positioned in a platoon (10) so that the one of the first and second tractor trailer (12, 20) that has the lower tread volumetric void percentage is positioned in front of the other of the first or second tractor trailers (12, 20) so long as a difference of at least 7% is present between the tread volumetric void percentages of the first and second tractor trailers (12, 20).