1. EUROPEAN FINANCING OF DRIVERS TRAINING The ISSTE project Improving Safety and Security in public surface Transport Florin Dragomir, RATB, Romania

2. ATAC SPA ATAC SPA: Public Transport Operator in Rome, ITALY RATB RATB: Public Transport Operator in Bucharest, ROMANIA WBS Training WBS Training: German Private Consulting Company, GERMANY UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST UNIVERSITY 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 Rome Campobasso Bucharest Malaga Directorates A & B Policy and Programmes European Commission Executive Agency

3. ATAC is the company managing the whole urban transport system in the City of Rome (trains, tramway, subway, and bus).  Territory 1.285 (Km 2 )  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 (Km 2 )  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)

4. 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

5. The content of SAFETY AND SECURITY DRIVERS TRAINING INNOVATIVE CURRICULUM A. THEORETIC TRAINING 1. Road Legislation 2. Technicalities about the vehicles 3. Safety Driving 4. Driving Theory 5. Safety Norms and Fire Prevention 6. First Aid and Medical Notions B. PRACTICAL TRAINING: The Training duration - in accordance with the 2003/95/EC Directive.

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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 WP4 DELIVERABLE New accreditation / certification methodologies Standards Quality assessment WP4 Deliverable 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

9. 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 Recommendations for accreditation and certification

10. Quality assessment in training Recommendations for accreditation and certification

11. SAFETY & SECURITY COMPONENT LEARNING TEST BASIC NOTIONS Road 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 MONITORINGMONITORING

12. 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:

13. http://www.isste.eu Available materials, on ISSTE website:

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