The Perfection Of Government Regulation Of Taxi Trade

With the rapid development of China’s economy and the elevation of people’sliving standard, taxi trade is increasingly important in the traffic system of urbantransportation. It has become a flowing landscape line in city and the sign of urbancivilization. Not only become taxi the indispensable part of urban traffic, but alsosupply the new choice and tremendous convenience for our trip. Moreover, somecontradiction and problems are gradually exposed during the rapid development oftaxi trade. The increase of strike and petition over the country, especially in the nearyears, reveal one corner of veil of predicament in taxi trade, and reflect many defectsof government regulation, and revoke abroad attention and query of the publictowards the regulation policy. At president, government regulation of taxi trade doesnot add the social welfare, but endow taxi companies the monopoly position andexcessive profit, and lead to the rent seeking of government, and the profit of driver oftaxi could not be protected. Furthermore, the despite repeated prohibitions of theunlicensed taxis bring about the unstable factor of taxi trade.Through the methods of positive analysis, text analysis and theoretical analysis,from the radical theory of government regulation as the start, the thesis expound theconnotation and trait of government regulation, introduce the public interest theory,regulation capture theory and stimulating regulation theory of government regulation,and prove the necessity of regulation towards the taxi trade. By synthetic analysis ofthe business model of taxi and the system, content and progress of regulation of the government, many problems in government regulation of taxi trade are exposed. Suchas monopoly business of taxi companies, the damage of driver, the improper freightrates, rent-seeking and the unlicensed taxis, and so on. In order to solve the problemeffectively, it is necessary to realize the foundation of power of operation of taxi is notspecial license, but general license. To perfect the government regulation of taxi trade,firstly, law system should be completed, and the existing laws and regulations of taxishould be clean, new administrative measures should be formulated to norm the localregulation of taxi business. Secondly, management model which accords with localactual should be choosed, individual operator should be given the same chance toentrance the market. Thirdly, the number of taxi delivery should be properlycontrolled, which means number regulation should be relaxed, and multiple methodsof regulation should be developed and transit to service government. Finally,supervision mechanism of taxi trade should be perfected to enhance the transparenceof law enforcement and fully consider the interest of all parties which could supplythe reference to make and adjust the entrance system. However, there will be manykinds of problems on the road to perfect the regulation of taxi trade, and thegovernment shoulder heavy responsibilities.