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Currently, the ASTM P225/60R 97S Radial Standard Reference Test Tire (SRTT) is used as a control test tire for calibrating test track surfaces over time and for rank ordering the noise performance of different pavement designs. As a result, variation from one SRTT to another and the effects of tire aging are important to quantify. Measurements of tire noise sound intensity on eight asphalt and two concrete test sections were conducted for eleven new and six older SRTT tires. The range in level for the new tires on each of the ten pavements was determined and was found to be 1.1 dB when averaged over all pavements compared to 0.7 dB for a single tire tested multiple times. As a group, the older tires produced levels 0.5 dB higher than the new tires when averaged for all pavements. The older tires had higher tread rubber durometer hardness values than the new tires, however, within the old and new groupings, no consistent trends could be identified.