EUROPEAN FINANCING OF

DRIVERS TRAINING

The ISSTE project

Improving Safety and Security in public surface Transport

Florin Dragomir, RATB, Romania

• ATAC SPAATAC SPA: Public Transport Operator in Rome, ITALY

• RATBRATB: Public Transport Operator in Bucharest, ROMANIA

• WBS TrainingWBS Training: German Private Consulting Company, GERMANY

• UNIVERSITY OF BUCHARESTUNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST: Transport Department, ROMANIA

• SECOND CHANCE ASSOCIATION: Bulgarian Public Consulting Company, BULGARIA

• ZAS ASSOCIATION: Association of Driving Schools in Slovakia, SLOVAKIA

• ASIA ONLUS: Public Consulting Company in Italy, ITALY

• INICATIVAS PARA LA FORMACION: Spanish Consulting Company, SPAIN

Dresden

Bourgas

Presov

RomeCampobasso

Bucharest

Malaga

Directorates A & BPolicy and Programmes

European Commission

Executive Agency

ATAC is the company managing the whole urban transport system in the City of Rome (trains, tramway, subway, and bus). Territory 1.285 (Km2) 13.000 employees; 6.789 vehicle drivers

6500 bus & tram drivers 289 subway drivers

1.462 million trips/ year 2.674 buses for 274 lines in total; 416 trains for 3 lines 165 trams for 6 lines 52 electric minibuses for 3 lines Network (Km):

Bus 2.264 Tramway 39 Subway 36,6

RATB the is the biggest local surface public transport operator in Bucharest (trams, trolleybuses, busses).

Territory 1.811 (Km2) 12.058 employees; (of which 1.511 at Repairing Plant)

4.408 drivers

2.768 bus drivers 975 tram drivers 665 troleybus drivers

805 million trips / year 1.035 buses on 116 lines; 341 trams on 26 lines; 216 trolleybuses on 20 lines; Network (Km):

Bus 1.374 Tramway 286 Trolleybus 152 Subway 66,95 (Metrorex)

The main objective of the ISSTE project is to increase

safety and security in public surface transport by

establishing an innovative curriculum for drivers training

MAIN PROJECT OBJECTIVE:

Innovative Curriculum Testing

Training process Evaluation

Recommendations for Accreditation/Certification methodologies

The content of SAFETY AND SECURITY DRIVERS

TRAINING INNOVATIVE CURRICULUM A. THEORETIC TRAINING

1. Road Legislation2. Technicalities about the vehicles3. Safety Driving4. Driving Theory 5. Safety Norms and Fire Prevention6. First Aid and Medical Notions

B. PRACTICAL TRAINING:

The Training duration - in accordance with the 2003/95/EC Directive.

The Added Value:

• Specific occupational standards for drivers were considered

• Innovative curriculum includes dedicated modules for S&S

• European collaboration for elaborating similar procedures for drivers training

• Permanent feed-back procedure on training process

• Integrated training system with continuous monitoring of acquired knowledge and skills

• Optimized time span for training modules

CURRICULA TESTING

RATB (Bucharest)ATAC (Rome)• 96 trolleybus drivers – divided in 4 classes (selected from those who registered various traffic incidents in the last 3 years)

• 200 total training hours

• training on S&S issues and other current topics

• 4 sets of questionnaires and 1 for drivers feedback

• 24 bus drivers (ranging between 6 and 17 years of corporate experience and selected based on a S&S questionnaire)

• 35 training hours

• training only for the S & S issues

• 2 sets of questionnaires including drivers feedback

Positive feedback from the drivers

Recommendations for accreditation and certification

EU Lifelong Learning Programme 2007-2013 - Leonardo da Vinci

Project ISSTE Improving Safety and Security in Public Surface Transport

134115 -LLP - 2007 - IT - LMP

WP4DELIVERABLE

•New accreditation / certification methodologies•Standards•Quality assessment

WP4Deliverable

Innovative procedures developed

• Design of a comprehensive set of methodologies for accreditation and certification of public transport training centers

• Design of methodologies for efficient self-evaluation• Design of procedures for continuous improvement of

quality and corrective self-evaluations S&S TRAINING PROCESS DESIGN

Evaluation of learning materials

Evaluation of the curricula

Evaluation of the

programme

Trainer /Training process designer

evaluation

S&S TRAINING PROCESS

EXAMINATION

Student / trainee evaluation

SOLUTIONS FOR FORMATIVE EVALUATION

Quality assessment

• Actions developed:– Planning the formative evaluation of

S&S Training – useful for continuous improvement of quality;

– Design of a set of recommendations for the quality assessment of work performance;

– Provision of key indicators

Public Transport Company

requirementsSTANDARDS

BORDER TO EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT

Classification Training Course

Certification(ISO or other)

COMPANY / DEPT.ACCREDITATION

Self assessment

Audits

Process variables

Local rulesKey Quality Indicators

ReportsQuality ReportsIncident Reports

Other company profiled surveys

PRECONDITIONS

S&S Training Course

Measurements of processes

Events Database

Recommendations for accreditation and certification

TRAINING PROCESS

INTERNAL QUALITY

ASSESSMENT

SELECTION OF

TRAINEES

SELECTION OF

TRAINERS

EVALUATION OF

GRADUATES

INTERNALACTIVITIES

FLOW OF ACTIVITIESFLOW OF ACTIVITIES

AUDITACCREDITATIONCERTIFICATION

QUALITY IMPROVEMENT

Quality assessment in training

Recommendations for accreditation and certification

SAFETY & SECURITYCOMPONENT

LEARNING TEST

BASIC NOTIONSRoad Legislation, Driving Technique, Technicalities about the vehicles, Safety Norms, Fire Prevention, Ecological Driving, First aid, Medical Notions, etc.

BEGINNER DRIVER TRAINING

LIFELONG LEARNING

FINAL TEST

INPUT

SERVICE

MONITORING

• Reduce the number of incidents and fatalities

• Rise the ability to anticipate risks

• Correct procedures for emergency

• A more environmental-friendly impact of transport’s activities

• Improve vocational skills of human resources

PERIODIC DRIVERS TRAINING:

http://www.isste.eu

Available materials, on ISSTE website:

Thank you for your attention!