Land Transport Safety and Security

Ministry of Transport Republic of TRKYE General Directorate Of Land Transport

MoT of TRKYE, DGLT

The regulatory framework

Turkey; a party to the AETR agreement. periodically amending its legislation in conformity with the revelant EU legislation (2006/22, 567/2006) on social rules in Road Transport has become party to the ADR agreement recently. In addition; new department regarding Transport of Dangerous Goods covering all modes of transport is going to be established within DGLT in 2010.

MoT of TRKYE, DGLT

Accident data collection

Accident datas are collected by the General Directorate of Safety. General Directorate of Safety is sharing whole datas on its web site (www.trafik.gov.tr) for using public opinion and other bodies of administration.

MoT of TRKYE, DGLT

Transport safety
INSPECTION AUTHORITIES Ministry of Transport

General Directorate of Land Transport Regional Office (12 RO)

Ministry of Interior

Police

Gendarme

Municipalitys Staff on duty Intercity Coach Terminal Customs

Staff on duty Border Gates

MoT of TRKYE, DGLT

Transport safety
Web Resources
1. www.ulastirma.gov.tr

2. www.ubak.gov.tr
3. www.kugm.gov.tr 4. www.tuvturk.com.tr

5. www.emniyet.gov.tr
6. www.trafik.gov.tr

MoT of TRKYE, DGLT

Transport safety
Our ministry has been working about transport safety and security with three most important pojects These are; 1. Weight and dimension controls 2. Vehicle inspection stations 3. Removal of old vehicles from the Market

MoT of TRKYE, DGLT

WEIGHT AND DIMENSION CONTROLS

Weight and Dimension Control has been carried out according to the Highway Traffic Law (No. 2918) item no. 65. and the Road Traffic Regulation

01.07.2007
Inspection of heavy loaded vehicles by MoT With 24 WIM Stations By 12 Regional Offices

MoT of TRKYE, DGLT

WEIGHT AND DIMENSION CONTROLS

Our ministry has started to renovate and to upgrade the weight and dimension stations.
The existing 24 Stations has modernized WDC been

Efforts and projects to increase the number are underway MoT of TRKYE, DGLT

WEIGHT AND DIMENSION CONTROLS

Control Stations for Weight & Dimensions of Commercial Vehicles

Purchase of 200 mobile weighting scales completed and distributed to Regional Branches

6 Mobile Control Stations Distributed to Regional Offices (supplied under EU project)

MoT of TRKYE, DGLT

WEIGHT AND DIMENSION CONTROLS

New EU Project for Establishment of Weight and Dimension Controls of Commercial Vehicles

Accepted by the EC in the IPA-2009 programming, 22 new control stations will be constructed, New stations will be located at arterial roads specified by TINA Report, borders, bottlenecks, and at the hinterlands of seaports, Total Budget: 11,600,000 Duration: 18 Months (Starts: 2010-3.Q, Ends: 2012-2.Q)
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Directorate-General for Land Transport

(the component authority)

operates its activities according to

Law of Highway Traffic

(No. 2918)

in collaboration with various stakeholders

(public-local authorities, NGOs, companies, banks)

manually (via W/D Control stations) or electronically (via U-Net Automation System) and strengthens its institutional and operational capacity
(via IPA-funded Project)
MoT of TRKYE, DGLT to fully implement the Directives 96/53/EC and 2002/7/EC.

The Establishment and Operation of Vehicle Inspection Stations have been tendered for 613.5 Million $.
The total amount has been reduced to 552 Million $ with cash discount and directed to the Turkish Treasury upon the signature of the contract on 15 August 2007. Project was completed as of 14 April 2009. Recently, 189 fixed and 72 mobile stations have been established with the investment amounted to 450 Million $. Roughly 3.000 employee are working in these stations. Out of 3.000, there are 1,820 technical personnel.

MoT of TRKYE, DGLT

VEHICLE INSPECTION STATIONS

LEGAL FRAMEWORK
Regulation Relating to the Opening and Operating of Vehicle Inspection Stations and Inspection of Vehicles (23.9.2004) Full alignment with EU Directives 96/96/EC and 2000/30/EC Public Service Concession Agreement signed among the Prime Ministry Privatization Institution, MoT and DouAkfen-TVSD Consortium (15.08.2007) MOT in charge of checking and supervising the stations for 20 years.
MoT of TRKYE, DGLT

Turkish fleet operating in international transport consists of high Standard vehicles under Euro norms,
however; the fleet in domestic transport market especially in freight transport does not conform to the same standards. As a solution to this fact, a Project has been developed and motor-vehicles whose model year is 1979 and older in both freight and passenger transport will be gradually withdrawn from the market within 2 years. (This implementation covers motor vehicles whose maximum permissible weight is more than 3.500 kg in freight transport and buses which have more than 16 sitting places including the driver.) Through this project, 160.000 vehicles-trucks and buses- are expected to be withdrawn from the domestic market.
MoT of TRKYE, DGLT