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Patterned tires can not be build that are less than 1-3 dB(A) louder than smooth tires. Further reduction of tire excitation by tread pattern optimization cannot be expected. For further lowering the tire/road noise the tire construction and the excitation by road needs to be addressed. In the EC funded project SILENCE a subproject looks for further reduction possibilities of tire/road noise. For a straightforward improvement of tire/road noise the vibration pattern on the surface of a rolling tire must be known. In the project the tire vibrations of rolling tires were identified with indirect methods. Two new approaches will be presented in the paper: The framework for numerical optimization of point source positions and source strengths has been tested on a real tire rolling at 80 km/h. Models with one two to six sources have been produced, covering frequencies up to 1 kHz.