Second Edition
Imperatives imposed upon the development of automotive transmissions are improving driving performance, increasing driving comfort and ease of use, increasing reliability and service life, reducing weight and installation space, raising efficiency levels, profiling the brand image, reducing costs and, above all, redu ing fuel consumption and pollutant emissions. Markets and market mechanisms for passenger cars and commercial vehicles differ and the emphasis placed on these requirements differs in turn. Common to all cases is that a variety of requirements leads by necessity to a conflict of goals. Approaches that can help to solve the goal conflicts are individual usage-optimised transmission solutions, higher integration of submodules, introducing more functionality and generating superordinate functions by means of networking with other vehicle components.
