Communications - Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina 2024, 26(4):A89-A104 | DOI: 10.26552/com.C.2024.054

Factors Negatively Affecting the Quality of Work of Pti Technicians - the Case of the Slovak Republic

Juraj Hudec ORCID...1, Branislav Šarkan ORCID...2, *
1 Ministry of Transport of the Slovak Republic, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
2 Department of Road and Urban Transport, Faculty of Operations and Economics of Transport and Communications, University of Zilina, Zilina, Slovak Republic

The authors examine the negative impact of objective and subjective factors on the quality of work of periodical technical inspection stations (PTI) technicians. In this context, the authors conducted a survey among the PTI technicians and vehicle operators. From the results formulated in the article, it emerged that the quality of PTI technicians' work, and thus the entire PTI, is negatively affected mainly by the high degree of subjectivity entrusted to PTI technicians, when evaluating the technical condition of vehicles (94.12 %) and the resulting scope for incorrect judgments and influencing the result of PTI (corruption, acquaintances), and the approach of PTI owners (influencing technical inspections results due to fear of losing customers, pressure on quantity over quality, method of rewarding the PTI technicians, etc.). The authors also propose some measures to improve the quality of PTI activities.

Keywords: periodical technical inspection station, PTI technician, quality of work, road traffic safety
Grants and funding:

This research was funded by the VEGA project. 1/0426/22 Quantification of the impact of road transport on the environment in urban areas, and by project KEGA project. 041ZU-4/2022 Implementation of students in the teaching process through the implementation of practical measurements in the form of driving and laboratory tests of road vehicles using multimedia tools, and by institutional project 2/KCMD/2023 - Research on the quantification of exhaust gas emissions of road vehicles during their operation in Slovak conditions.

Conflicts of interest:

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

Received: May 2, 2024; Accepted: July 26, 2024; Prepublished online: September 18, 2024; Published: October 1, 2024  Show citation

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Hudec, J., & Šarkan, B. (2024). Factors Negatively Affecting the Quality of Work of Pti Technicians - the Case of the Slovak Republic. Communications - Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina, 26(4), A89-104. doi: 10.26552/com.C.2024.054
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