A Preliminary Assessment Of Benefits And Costs Of Mandated Truck Driver Training: The European Union Truck Driver Certificate Of Professional Competence (CPC)
This paper examines the potential benefits and costs of the imposition of a Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC) in the European Union (EU), which commenced in 2007. The analysis begins with a review of the justification, formulation, design and implementation of the EU CPC; examines the available information on the impacts that the CPC is having on the freight trucking sector in Europe; and concludes with a discussion of policy and benefit-cost issues surrounding the EU CPC.
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Supplemental Notes:
- This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AT060 Trucking Industry Research.
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Corporate Authors:
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Authors:
- Gordon, Cameron
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Conference:
- Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting
- Location: Washington DC
- Date: 2014-1-12 to 2014-1-16
- Date: 2014
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Features: References; Tables;
- Pagination: 11p
- Monograph Title: TRB 93rd Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Benefit cost analysis; Driver training; Economic impacts; Policy; Truck drivers
- Identifier Terms: Certificate of Professional Competence
- Geographic Terms: European Union countries
- Subject Areas: Economics; Education and Training; Freight Transportation; Motor Carriers; I10: Economics and Administration;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01516401
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: 14-2455
- Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
- Created Date: Feb 28 2014 1:32PM