Abstract
Prior to 2016, motorcycle licensing in Victoria, Australia, required off-road (range) skills testing only, focusing on vehicle-handling skills. The objective of this research was to develop an education and assessment curriculum commensurate with best practice that included on-road components and increased focus on awareness, judgment, and decision-making skills. No single best-practice curriculum was identified in the published literature. Therefore, to guide development of a new curriculum, a best-practice novice driver education framework, Goals for Driver Education, was adapted into the Goals for Rider Education framework. Applying Training Needs Analysis, the target population of learner motorcyclists was identified as largely male and aged under 30 years, with the target crash problem including a high proportion of single-vehicle loss-of-control crashes. Tailored content was developed based on exemplary Australian and international curricula, behaviour change theory, and adult learning principles; including transitioning from training to coaching and from testing to competency-based assessment. The result is Victoria’s new Motorcycle Graduated Licensing System (M-GLS) education and assessment curriculum, comprising three stages: pre-learner (Motorcycle Permit Assessment), learner (Check Ride), and pre-licence (Motorcycle Licence Assessment). Subject to potential refinements and on-going evaluation, this work lays the foundation for establishing a best-practice approach to novice motorcyclist education for licensure.
Highlights
Australia has experienced an escalation in motorcycling popularity over recent years
To identify a model curriculum framework for novice motorcyclist education, a search of peer-reviewed literature was conducted in June 2014 using Scopus, supplemented with targeted searches of grey literature and training models in Australia, as well as exemplar models in Europe, North America, and Asia
In the absence of a single exemplar model that met the project requirements, a guiding framework was developed, adapted from a best-practice framework applied in novice driver education, and a Training Needs Analysis was conducted, comprising the following sub-activities: (a)
Summary
Australia has experienced an escalation in motorcycling popularity over recent years. 22.3% compared to an overall vehicle increase of 12.1% over the last five years to 2015 [1]. Unlike for passenger car occupants, who have experienced annual decreases in crash fatalities, motorcyclist fatalities have either shown increases or remained steady [2]. Motorcycles represent only 4.5% of the Australian vehicle fleet [1], but motorcyclists represent 17.9% of all road fatalities [2]. This has led to revised motorcycle safety strategies at a national [3] and state level (e.g., New South Wales [4]).
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