Ranking Courses and Headlines of Training Professional Drivers

Training of professional drivers has been considered widely in the countries, greatly developed in traffic safety. Also in our country, tangible increasing in statistics of road and urban car accidents is observable which led the authorities to set professional courses for drivers. The main purpose of this project is ranking the courses and headings of training professional drivers. Required data were collected as questionnaire sheets, answered by 39 experts and 80 professional drivers about the loading and passenger transportation. At last five training courses (Professional driving skills, Vehicle specification, Occupational health, Road transportation rules and regulation, Criteria of handling and inhibition of different loads) and headings of each course, That is a total 24 headlines, were ranked by FAHP-FTOPSIS hybrid model. Results show that professional driving skills, public transportation criteria, professional health and safety, containment and carrying loads criterion and vehicle specifications were ranked from 1 to 5 respectively. In the course professional driving skills, roads help and rescue, principles of safe driving, defensive driving skills, driving in special conditions, per-travel measures and driving primary principles were ranked from 1 to 6 respectively. In the course of vehicle specification titles of new systems and technologies, repair and maintenance skills, material recognizing and details of settings and interior equipment were ranked from 1 to 4. In the course of professional health titles of sleepy and tired feelings effects, drug using effects, professional ethics drivers illness and healthy diet and traveling life skills were ranked from 1 to 5 respectively. In the course of transportation criteria titles of prohibited and violations, regulations criteria, acquaintance of different insurances and importance of them and documents were ranked from 1 to 4 respectively. In the course of containment and carrying loads which is particular for freight drivers, carrying dangerous loads, principles of different loads containment, tools of load containment, size and weight of different loads and connection and disjunction of trailers were ranked from 1 to 5 respectively.Training of professional drivers has been considered widely in the countries, greatly developed in traffic safety. Also in our country, tangible increasing in statistics of road and urban car accidents is observable which led the authorities to set professional courses for drivers. The main purpose of this project is ranking the courses and headings of training professional drivers. Required data were collected as questionnaire sheets, answered by 39 experts and 80 professional drivers about the loading and passenger transportation. At last five training courses (Professional driving skills, Vehicle specification, Occupational health, Road transportation rules and regulation, Criteria of handling and inhibition of different loads) and headings of each course, That is a total 24 headlines, were ranked by FAHP-FTOPSIS hybrid model. Results show that professional driving skills, public transportation criteria, professional health and safety, containment and carrying loads criterion and vehicle specifications were ranked from 1 to 5 respectively. In the course professional driving skills, roads help and rescue, principles of safe driving, defensive driving skills, driving in special conditions, per-travel measures and driving primary principles were ranked from 1 to 6 respectively. In the course of vehicle specification titles of new systems and technologies, repair and maintenance skills, material recognizing and details of settings and interior equipment were ranked from 1 to 4. In the course of professional health titles of sleepy and tired feelings effects, drug using effects, professional ethics drivers illness and healthy diet and traveling life skills were ranked from 1 to 5 respectively. In the course of transportation criteria titles of prohibited and violations, regulations criteria, acquaintance of different insurances and importance of them and documents were ranked from 1 to 4 respectively. In the course of containment and carrying loads which is particular for freight drivers, carrying dangerous loads, principles of different loads containment, tools of load containment, size and weight of different loads and connection and disjunction of trailers were ranked from 1 to 5 respectively.