Charles Goldenbeld of BESTPOINT presented a conceptual framework for driver penalty systems (DPS) at a meeting in Brussels on September 6, 2012. The framework outlines how DPS aims to prevent traffic violations through point accumulation threats, correct repeat offenders' behavior via driver improvement courses, and select out dangerous drivers. It also examines the effect mechanisms, outcomes, support systems, design process, and external factors involved in the DPS system.
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What does a DPS do?
prevents, corrects, selects
Prevention: threat of accumulating points
restraints drivers from violating traffic rules
Correction: driver behaviour change of repeat
offenders as a result of extra measures within
DPS (driver improvement course)
Selection: removal of dangerous drivers from
traffic
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Framework 5: The total framework
Black boxes: the
links in the DPS
system itself
Grey boxes:
external
conditions/factors
9. BEST POINT
In conclusion:
? Key mechanisms DPS: Prevention,
selection & correction
? Conceptual framework: DPS system itself
and external conditons/factors