Fitness-to-drive assessments

Fitness-to-drive assessments: a professional evaluation of your fitness to drive

Following certain offences, the court may, in addition to a driving ban, impose fitness-to-drive assessments. To regain your driving licence, you must pass the imposed assessments.

Fitness-to-drive assessments are medical and/or psychological assessments that determine whether your physical condition and your behaviour in traffic allow safe operation of a motor vehicle. They are carried out by accredited institutions such as Vias Institute.

What are the different types of fitness-to-drive assessments?

• Psychological fitness-to-drive assessment: focus on traffic attitudes, risk perception, self-control and responsible driving behaviour.
• Medical fitness-to-drive assessment: focus on the medical fitness to drive.
• Combined assessment: medical and psychological on the same day and at the same location, conducted by a doctor and a psychologist.

Available locations

With offices spread across the country, Vias Institute is open one or more days per week and staffed by professional and customer-focused teams. All offices are accessible for persons with reduced mobility and easily reached by public transport and by car. 

The fitness-to-drive assessment is conducted in the official language of the region in which the office is located.

• in Flanders: in Dutch
• in Wallonia: in French
• in Brussels: in Dutch and French
• in the German-speaking Community: in German and French

If you are not sufficiently fluent in the official language of the region to allow the assessments to be carried out properly, it is up to you to arrange for a sworn interprete