CIECA 50th Anniversary Congress

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• CIECA 50th Anniversary Congress
• 9 June 2006Dr. Stefan Tostmann
• Head of Road Safety Unit
• Future Trends in Safe Driving

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Overview

• A picture of road safety
• Domains of EU actions
• Safe Driving Driver Licensing and Education

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A picture of road safety in Europe
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• CONCLUSION
• We are on the right track, but need to do more
• Focus 2006-2010 on practical initiatives with
  rapid and measurable impact.
• Actions envisaged
• Road Safety Day
• Scoreboard Visible MS Benchmarking
• Stringent Europewide Campaigns
• Higher visibility for Road Safety Charter
• Joining forces with the health community - UN/WHO

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• Domains of EU actions

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• Vehicle safety
• CARS 21
• EU-Directive on blind spot mirrors for existing
  trucks
• Public consultation completed
• Road Infrastructure safety
• Tunnels Directive applicable from May 2006 on
  good progress in implementation
• EU-Directive Road Safety Infrastructure
  Management
• Public consultation completed
• Road Safety Observatory two major challenges
• Widen access to database
• Ensure economic viability over time

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• Safe Driving Driver Licensing and Education

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• User behaviour
• Education
• School education
• Campaigns
• Training
• Skills
• Attitudes
• Licensing
• Pre- and post-licensing
• Accompanying measures
• Enforcement
• Automated enforcement chain quantitative
• Educational qualitative
• Rehabilitation
• Individualised reinsertion recidivism
• First offenders

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• User behaviour Licensing
• Driving licence political agreement in Council
  of 27/03/2006 Application in 2012, just enough
  time for the MS to do the work
• Anti-fraud measures only plastic card, limited
  administrative validity (10years, up to 15 years
  possible), strengthening the principle one
  holder-one licence, optional micro-chip
• Further harmonisation of categories Creation of
  category AM (Moped only theory test), new
  definitions of categories B and BE, staged
  access to categories A, C and D, categories A1,
  C1 and D1 mandatory
• Harmonisation of the periodicity of the medical
  checks for professional drivers (5 y.)
• Minimum training requirements for driving
  examiners

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• User behaviour Driving tests
• Work on theory and practical tests already done
  (2000/56/EC) a new Annex II of Directive on
  driving licences with new requirements for
• Theory test
• Testing vehicles
• Practical tests
• TEST study (2002-2005)
• Evaluation of over 3000 tests in 6 Member States
• Relevance of practical test as conducted today
  (2000/56/EC)
• Requirements to be imposed on testing centres
• Recommendations for future tests test centre,
  length and contents of the test

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• User behaviour Education
• Directive 2003/59/EC on training of professional
  drivers
• Transposition into national law 10.09.2006
• Application in phases
• Initial qualification category D 10.09.2008
• Initial qualification category C 10.09.2009
• Permanent education
• As of above dates for drivers cat. D and C
• Consequences
• Improve road safety and standard of service
• Help people taking up the occupation and boost
  employment

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• User behaviour Education
• EU-funded research
• GADGET (1998-1999)
• Gadget-matrix
• Recommendations for campaigns
• Recommendations for enforcement
• BASIC (2001-2003)
• Analysis of current pre-licensing driver training
• ADVANCED (2000-2002)
• Analysis of driver/rider post-licensing courses
  in EU
• NOV-EV (2002-2004)
• Trial and analysis of post-licensing courses in 6
  EU member states
• CLOSE TO (2003-2005)
• Trial and analysis of training on risk prevention
  by peers

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• GADGET matrix

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• User behaviour Education
• EU-funded research
• On driver rehabilitation measures ANDREA
  (2000-2002)
• Description of rehabilitation courses in EU
• Formulation of recommendations on the contents
  and format of the courses
• Training of driving instructors MERIT
  (2003-2005)
• Wide research consortium
• Analysis of current rules in 25 Member States
• Formulating recommendations
• May lead to a Commission initiative on driving
  instructors

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• CONCLUSION
• Behaviour education is a long-term strategy
• Important to change behaviour role of driving
  tests
• Training of drivers should be closely linked to
  driver licensing (professional drivers)
• Pre- and post-licensing measures can be inserted
  into lifelong driver education
• Training of driving instructors essential to
  raise the level of training
• Rehabilitation measures for offenders
• Driver education synthesis to be made, action
  and debate will be launched by the European
  Commission

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• Thank you for your attention
• Commission transport websitehttp//europa.eu.int/
  comm/transport/index_en.html
• Road transport sectionhttp//europa.eu.int/comm/t
  ransport/road/index_en.htm
• CARE databasehttp//europa.eu.int/comm/transport/
  home/care/index_en.htm
• Driving licenceshttp//europa.eu.int/comm/transpo
  rt/home/drivinglicence/index_en.htm