WORKING CONDITIONS IN IRREGULAR ROAD PASSENGER TRANSPORT

ARBEID IN HET ONGEREGELD PERSONENVERVOER

The irregular road passenger transport industry consists of various types of transport carried out in different vehicles. This article deals with the working conditions of professional drivers in buses and cabs. A brief survey of the past decade shows increased interest in the structure of the taxi passenger transport industry and the safety of its drivers against violent acts. In the same period unions emphasized the need of a better observation of collective agreement in the tourist coach industry. Furthermore a description is given of the actual working conditions in both taxis and coach industry, influenced by drivers' hours rules, collective agreement and its own structure. Finally some conclusions are drawn for the near future: uncertainty as regards the outcome of a proposal for new legislation on road passenger transport; an expected diminishing of seasonal labour in the tourist coach transport, together with reduction of structural overtime by introduction of working time on a yearly basis. For the taxi industry vocational training and better working conditions are foreseen. (TRRL)

• Corporate Authors:

  Netherlands Institute of Transport

  Polakweg 13
  2288 GG Rijswijk,   Netherlands 
• Authors:
  • Vallenduuk, J B
• Publication Date: 1984

Language

• Dutch

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 104-113
• Serial:
  • TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR VERVOERSWETENSCHAP
  • Volume: 20
  • Issue Number: 2

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bus drivers; Buses; Crimes; Drivers; Jobs; Physiological fatigue; Prevention; Psychological aspects; Psychological stress; Safety; Security; Taxicabs; Timetables; Training; Work rules; Working conditions
• Geographic Terms: Netherlands
• ITRD Terms: 1772: Driver; 2222: Fatigue (human); 8078: Netherlands; 2271: Occupation; 1516: Offence; 9149: Prevention; 1665: Safety; 2234: Stress (psychol); 1148: Taxi; 1186: Timetable
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Education and Training; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00392800
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Institute for Road Safety Research, SWOV
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 29 1985 12:00AM