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Initial rider training in Europe does not meet riders' needs. Improving pre-licence training will reduce the number of riders killed and injured.

 

 

 

 

 

Results

The IRT project has

• created a model European initial rider training programme which includes a modular approach to initial rider training, the essential elements and aspects for initial rider training, a method and approach to support initial rider training, and a comprehensive manual for use in a range of situations;

• evaluated the potential of e-Coaching for initial rider training;
• reviewed recent rider and driver training research and surveyed national training and testing arrangements.

Recommendations

Deliverable 1:

• The European Commission should use the IRT model European initial rider training programme as a basis for assessing the quality of existing national rider pre- licence training arrangements and influencing the development of effective arrangements where they are found to be lacking or non-existent.
• The practice of an instructor teaching a rider or riders from a car is a particularly bad one and accordingly recommends to D-G Tren that they should do all they can to discourage this practice and should certainly seek to eliminate it within any proposals they make to improve instructor competence within an envisaged fourth European driving licence directive.

Deliverable 2:

• The differing social and economic initial rider training arrangements and circumstances should be more clearly acknowledged within the rider training policies and strategies of the European Commission and that D-G Tren should accept the IRT model training programme as a basis for improving pre-licence rider training within the member States of the European Union.

Deliverable 3:

• The development an e-Coaching programme should be supported by any and all means available, such as an appropriately structured and funded project, to the European Commission.
• The IRT e-coaching approach should be the basis for the European Commission to act upon recommendation 4 above.
• The continued involvement of the Hypermedia Unit at the Tampere University of Technology is very important in pursing successfully the objectives of the Deliverable 3 recommendations 4 and 5.

Deliverable 4:

• The Directorate-General for Energy and Transport of the European Commission, in consultation with FEMA, FIM, ACEM and IVV, initiate and support an IRT dissemination project, the objectives of which would be to:
  • technically review the IRT model European programme;
  • facilitate its translation into an agreed number of official languages;
  • develop instructor/user support material;
  • establish a permanent IRT programme website; and
  • produce videos for the Theoretical and Machine control elements.

 

 

 

 

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