Case study of the real contents delivered in French motorcycle schools

This study is concerned initial motorcycle training delivered in motorcycle schools in France. Novice motorcyclists are a particularly vulnerable group of road users in Europe and in France. However, scientific attempts to achieve a better understanding of their behaviors have been limited. The potential value of studying initial motorcycle training, both for research purposes and with regard to public policy, is readily apparent. The aims of this paper are to describe the real educational content of training in motorcycle schools and analyze to what extent this content is related to riding after licensing. A case study of all the training process of one trainee (38 hours) was carried out in real world. Audiovisual recordings and interview data of the rider and instructors were collected at each session. This study was supplemented by ethnographic observations of the educational content provided in three motorcycle schools throughout the instructors’ working days. The results that merged from both studies show (1) the riding skills that were fostered (i.e. control skills, and especially emergency skills, in stable and restricted environments) and undervalued (i.e. hazard perception skills, everyday skills) during initial training, and (2) the poverty of observed training settings: learners spend almost all their training time riding in the same setting that is used in the test. In addition to being repeated to excess, these settings are quite different from the real traffic. These results are discussed regarding the scientific literature on motorcycle education. The conclusion presents the implications of these results for public policy in order to design a future rider training system.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1007/s12544-013-0102-4
• Availability:
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • © 2014 Samuel Aupetit et al.
• Authors:
  • Aupetit, Samuel
  • Riff, Jacques
  • Espié, Stéphane
  • Buttelli, Olivier
• Publication Date: 2014-3

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 3-15
• Serial:
  • European Transport Research Review
  • Volume: 6
  • Issue Number: 1
  • Publisher: Springer Publishing
  • ISSN: 1866-8887
  • EISSN: 1867-0717
  • Serial URL: http://link.springer.com/journal/12544
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Case studies; Driver education; Motorcycling; Policy; Training
• Geographic Terms: France
• Subject Areas: Education and Training; Highways; I70: Traffic and Transport;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01525931
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 28 2014 3:22PM