onroad

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A form of on-road — Designed for, used for, or taking place on a driving surface that is traditionally paved, such as a street or smooth terrain

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adjectiveonroad (not comparable)

alternative on-road

  1. alternativenot comparableAlternative form of on-road.

    The lost calls as a function of the load from the onroad calls.

    1993, IEEE International Conference on Communications
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    In either case, the full impact or savings, would not be realized for another l0 years when the whole onroad fleet of vehicles would have reached the fuel economy level of the 1995 new cars.

    1980, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, Potential for Improved Automobile Fuel Economy Between 1985 and 1995

    Those numbers historically have been considerably higher than the average onroad experience.

    1982, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Energy Conservation and Power, Energy Conservation in Transportation, page 66

    The term “transportation” includes both onroad and nonroad sources.

    2000, Air quality criteria for carbon monoxide., →ISBN, page 10

    Current implementations for onroad driving consist primarily of lane detection and following.

    2000, Proceedings of the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, page 186

    Environmentalists object that adding flexibility to the mix of fuels industry generates would make the rule more difficult to enforce, and could hamper implementation of a related rule to reduce diesel emissions from onroad vehicles.

    2003, Inside E.P.A. Weekly Report

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