Introduction
The Driving Precision Aptitude Test is an aptitude test that aims to detect any defect by scientifically measuring individual personality, psychological, physiological and behavioral characteristics associated with TAP (traffic accident proneness). The purpose of the test is to prevent traffic accidents by detecting defects in the driver's aptitude and providing corrective measures and instructions.
Contents
Ground of Implementation
Mandatory Test: for commercial drivers
- Related laws: Article 26 of the Act of Passenger Vehicle Transportation Industry and Article 9 of the Act of Truck Transportation Industry
- Major contents: Drivers who engage in the transportation industry are required to meet the qualification requirements such as age and the driving career requirements and satisfy standards of the driving precision aptitude test.
- Test Classification and Subject
| Classification | Subject |
|---|---|
| Initial Test | Persons are seeking to be employed as a commercial driver for the first time |
| Special Test |
Among the drivers employed as commercial drivers, - anyone who has caused higher than severe injury - anyone whose accumulated scores, which are calculated according to annual administrative measures, are higher than 81 points. - anyone who is requested to take a test by his/her employer concerning about his/her driving safety. |
Voluntary Test
- Subject: Workers whose main task is driving
- Requesting companies: school buses, public agencies (fire fighters, EX(Korea Express Corporation), KOGAS (Korea Gas Corporation), (POSCO and others), security companies (SECOM and others), probation (violators of traffic regulations), airport (ASS aviation), military agencies (drivers) and others
Test Topics and Descriptions
- Initial Test
| Factor | Test Title | Check List |
|---|---|---|
| Sensory Motor Factor | Speed Prediction | Ability to predict the speed of a moving object, the level of psychologic anxiousness |
| Stop Distance Prediction | Control skills to stop the vehicle on a proper point taking account of its acceleration. Ability to estimate spatial distances | |
| Attention | Competence to shift, distribute and pay attention selectively, | |
| Depth Perception | Competence to estimate distance in a 3-D space | |
| Intellectual Factor | Cognitive Faculty | Visual perception inclination (field dependence or field independence) |
| Perception Style | Perceptive fluency, problem solving ability | |
| Personality Factor | Personality | Individual's unique thinking and behavior style (mental disease/anti-socialism/emotional maladjustment) |
- Special test
| Factor | Test Title | Check List |
|---|---|---|
| Driving Tendency Classification | Weakness (Visual perception, risk expectation, distribution of attention ) | |
| Sensory Motor Factor | Sensory Motor (Simulation driving) | Simple response and selective response skills Ability to pay attention to visual and auditory stimuli Ability to estimate the speed of a moving object. |
| Intellectual Factor | Verbal Faculty | Perceptive fluency |
| Reasoning F | Ability to judge, adapt and react to a situation | |
| Perception Style | Visual judgement | |
| Personality Factor | Anti-Sociality | Violation, irresponsibility, violence inclination |
| Neuroticism | Depression, anxiety, anger, impulse inclination | |
| Vision Factor | Kinetic Vision | Kinetic vision and static vision |
| Night Vision | Night vision and darkness adaptability | |
※ Conduct differentiated tests depending on the testee's weakness after classifying his/her driving inclination.
Procedure of test
Test Judgement
- Initial Test: Each test factor is judged to be either appropriate or inappropriate (Passed if all of test factors receive higher than 50 points.)
- Special Test: No judgement is made but after the test, every testee is required to attend a corrective training course.
Corrective Training
Corrective Training by Tester
- Subject: Testee who does not pass the initial test and the testees from the special test
- Training contents: Training to correct the defects found from the test
Corrective training by a transportation company
(Road safety manager or trainer from the transportation company. )
- Subject: All employees
- Training contents: Operate the corrective training connecting with a selected training course by defective items.
Test operation system
Performance
| Classification | Initial | Special | Training |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 140k | 40k | 40k |
| 2006 | 120K | 30K | 30K |
Initial Test: Mandatory test for commercial drivers
- Special Test: Test for drivers who have caused one or more accidents with serious consequences such as death or severe injury
- Corrective Training: Training to correct the weaknesses discovered during the driving aptitude test
Test Efficiency
Traffic Accidents Prevention
- Prediction of traffic accidents: 11.9%(Psychology Institute in Seoul National University 2006.12)
Decrease of social costs
- Annually traffic accident costs of about 112 billion KRW decreases thanks to prevention of traffic accidents.
- From the results of internal study conducted by a transportation company (The Korean Express Co., Ltd), the result of which is an annual savings of over 5 billion KRW.
