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Re: How to determine rolling resistance.

Trains and other tracked vehicles are more efficient than buses because the metal wheel on metal track interaction produces much less rolling resistance (the wheel doesn't deform nearly as much) than does a rubber wheel on asphalt road interaction. (Tracked vehicles are also efficient because they don't need to "generate" power locally but that's not the point)