The FutureDRV TIMELINE makes trends and innovations transparent and recognises their interrelation with the qualification requirements for drivers. It sets out a framework of developments to these upcoming changes and defines the responsibilities and steps to be taken by different stakeholders. The timeline is therefore a key tool for policy making, vocational education training and career planning in the context of professional driving describing the past of professional driver qualification and allowing a look into future developments leading in the one or the other direction of professional driving.

The timeline is of course closely related to the overall FutureDRV research results and strongly refers to the FutureDRV scenarios having been described for truck as well as bus/coach driving.