Establishment of a Common Pan-European PSN Driving Assessment Scheme. The CONSENSUS Project

CONSENSUS aims to develop a Network of Excellence to systematically exchange information on driving ability assessment of disabled people, to promote relevant technology transfer within European Union (EU) and to access expertise and resources of highly specialized Centers to other less specialized country authorities, using state of the art telematic tools and procedures and experimenting new Intelligent Technologies (IT) support tools (database and expert knowledge tool). This paper focuses on describing some results of this EU Project, based on: agreement on a proposed concise pan-European PSN functional classification scheme, with reference to driving ability, agreement on a common set of People with Special Needs (PSN) driving assessment criteria, assessment tools and procedures to support evaluators and improve and standardize the quality of assessment, identification of relevant gaps in existing assessment tools as key issues for future research. Finally the project will develop a proposal of a code of good practice on PSN driving ability assessment, recommendations to authorities and the industry and achieving relevant user acceptance and public awareness enhancement.