Study Of Several Legal Issues Of Urban Public Passenger Transport Contract

In the industry of urban public transportation, passengers pay to the carriers for the fee and the carriers drive the passengers and their luggage to the agreed destination. Therefore the two sides (passengers&carriers) have founded a contractual relationship of passenger transport. During the transportation, the carriers will take the responsibility and obligation to drive the passengers to the agreed destination safely and timely. Meanwhile the carriers should take the obligation to inform the passengers when they can not perform the contract. In practice, the urban public transportation is indispensible for the publics, so the disputes about the carriers’ duty between the carriers and passengers are quite common. Because the carriers are comparatively mighty and the laws®ulations are not so sound, when the carriers’ actions lead to the passengers’ loss of personal property, passengers’ legitimate interest will be difficult to be guaranteed. The author thinks that the contract of urban public transportation should be the consensual contract. The action of passengers’getting on the bus is an offer and the permission from carriers is a commitment. Then the contract will be established from passengers’ getting on the bus. During the urban public transportation, if passengers’ interests were damaged, they should investigate the carriers’ responsibility for breach of contract. When passengers get some mental damage, carriers should bear the responsibility of mental damage compensation. This paper aims at discussing the above legal issues, and puts forward the corresponding measures of legislative perfection.