Road Safety Management

Reflections on Drivers Training and Road Safety Education in Portugal

1 -Drivers Training

Actual situation:

• Evaluation focused solely on knowledge of the highway code and ability to carry out manoeuvres
• predetermined routes for evaluation
• competition between exam’s centers
• Same entity owner of driving school and exam centers
• Trainers and the examiners contacts

Initial driver training is a fundamental strategic tool to ensure that users authorized to drive vehicles on public roads acquire the necessaryknowledge for safe driving. For guarantee this it is necessary to ensure that the assessment of the acquisition of this knowledge is competent and rigorous. In the document “Towards a european road safety area: policy orientations on road safety 2011 -2010”, from the European Union, it’s written (pag 5) “The driving licence test The driving licence test should not be restricted to checking the candidate’s knowledge of the highway code or his ability to carry out manoeuvres. The Commission will consider how to also include broader driving skills, or even an evaluation of values and behaviour related to road safety (awareness of the risks) and defensive, energy-efficient driving (reinforcement of the key elements of eco-driving within the curricula of the theoretical and practical tests).”

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