The Road Safety Bureau of the NSW Roads and Traffic Authority commissioned CM Research to undertake a quantitative Survey on Driver Education and Knowledge. The quantitative study follows earlier qualitative work which explored perceptions of the value of driver education. A total of 824 interviews were held with NSW licence holders. Younger motorists were sampled more heavily than their population proportions in order to separately identify their views. Sydney/rest of NSW and male/female drivers were surveyed in proportion to the distribution of NSW drivers licence holders. Information sought from the Survey focused on: How important the public think driver education is; What the public means by the term driver education; What topics the public consider should be included in a driver education course; What type of driver the public think should attend a driver education course; How interested drivers are in attending a course themselves; and How far they would travel and how much they would pay for a driver education course. This report presents the findings of the survey. (A)
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