How to crack a taxi difficult

Related to urban traffic development: the introduction of the two documents is conducive to improve the use efficiency of urban transport resources

Because of the traffic space resource constraints, traffic congestion is almost ubiquitous persistent world big city, big city. Solve the common strategies of this chronic disease are vigorously developing urban mass transit (in the existing academic concept, large capacity public transportation refers to the subway, light rail, BRT and other, in this paper also increased a layer of meaning: as far as possible the use of large capacity transport), improve efficiency in the use of space resources of the city traffic, in order to effectively meet the demand for people to travel, which means that as far as possible, limit the car traffic, but due to the demand of diversity and the development of the automobile industry and other factors, may not and should not prohibit car traffic. Specific measures to implement measures to local conditions, a wide variety, such as peak charges, limit number, the number of licenses, limited number of cars, etc..

Many cities are also used in the number of rental vehicles to control the means, New York has not increased since 1937, the number of rental vehicles, China's major cities on the size of the rental cars are used in strict quantity control. According to estimates, if a 80 person capacity of the bus output efficiency is 1, then the output efficiency of the three car rental is only 0.112. To improve urban traffic resources use efficiency is undoubtedly beneficial, if the introduction of two draft can significantly inhibit the development of "car".

Thinking about the car is difficult to meet the needs of the majority of people can not meet the needs of the right to travel

In many large cities, large cities, taxi difficult is an indisputable fact. But the taxi difficult itself needs a series of preposition should limit in what period of time, location, what the price level "hit hard". In order to solve the problem of "difficult" taxi, taxi number of deregulation, increase number of taxis, vigorously develop the "car" are growing louder, even advocated through the market to solve the problem. In this regard, I think there are two points worth thinking about.

The space resources of the vast majority of central city traffic are rigid constraints, and it is almost impossible to increase with the increase of capital, which is not a condition for the economic significance of general market competition. Second, the low efficiency of the way to take up too much of the traffic space resources, will inevitably reduce the high efficiency of the traffic space resources, resulting in a decrease in the efficiency of the whole city. That is to say, a few people in order to meet the personalized travel too much occupied the city traffic space resources, will inevitably lead to more travel needs to travel, increased rental cars, the development of "car" to meet the travel needs of a few people to pay for the cost of occupied more people travel rights.

According to this, the author holds that it is a false proposition to study how much a city needs to be a taxi, because the demand for the rental car is directly related to the service position of the taxi. As for how to more scientific control there is a modest taxi or car size, different cities have different practices, learn from each other. Some foreign cities with high-end service positioning, high entry threshold, strict supervision, forced out but no quantitative control (I call it the "professional way") approach is better.

Thinking about fairness: on the way of the capital subsidy is contrary to the principle of fair competition in the market

Although the urban taxi does not operate according to the market mechanism, it has a strong distribution system, and the strict price control, but its pricing process or the value of the principle of compensation. Rationing system is generally used in the major cities of the taxi control mode, that is to rent the vehicle resources through the allocation of the management of the more standardized, service quality and credibility of the relatively high rental car companies, on the basis of the implementation of government management companies, companies in the management of rental car business model (but some cities have retained the history of a few individual rental car). This management model derived from the rental car, part of the money, that is to say that the rental car part of the essence of a part of the company's operating costs for the rental car. "Part of the money," the other part is the implementation of paid use of the license plate. The price of a taxi is determined on the basis of the monitoring of its operating costs. In the limited price level, if there are no other interference factors, the taxi driver can obtain the income that can be accepted, the operator can achieve sustained operation.

But since a significant increase of the number of "car", the Internet platform operators by way of subsidies makes car operators can be more low price car to provide services, has had a strong impact to the traditional rental car business. In this regard, I think there are a few points worth pondering.

One, the "car" platform operation itself is a kind of commercial activity, the nature of the profit is not likely to change, users for car dealers have other subsidies and lower than the cost price of consumption transport service, which is a standard, reasonable market behavior? And the market economy, the basic rules of anti dumping, countervailing? This is a traditional taxi business, is fair competition? Second, in the subsidy policy