A Law Analysis On The Levy On Traffic Jam Fee In China

Traffic congestion is a condition, in which the road was not utilized reasonably in a certain time or space range. The traffic is so large per unit time, more than the road can afford. The root cause of traffic congestion is the imbalance of road space resources between supply and demand, but rely on the simple increase traffic supply can not solve the problem of traffic congestion for more traffic supply will only bring more demand. To ease traffic congestion, Beijing, Shanghai and other cities has taken the qualifications of the motor vehicle registration lottery system, the motor vehicle registration auction system,and the private cars on the roads limit line system, etc., but the effect is not obvious, the problem of urban traffic congestion is still grim. Urban governance needs new effective measure, and traffic congestion fee performed in Singapore and the UK has gradually got the attention of scholars and experts for a long time.Traffic congestion fee refers to road users should pay a fee in heavy traffic, through the price mechanism to restrict the urban road traffic density in a specific time and space,for the purpose of relieving urban traffic congestion and enhancing the efficiency of the city traffic operation, which is an economic means to control traffic. The practical application of the system of traffic congestion fee started in 1975 when the government of Singapore adopted traffic congestion charging system in response to the urban traffic congestion, and the local traffic condition has improved. Since then, places such as London and Stockholm, also has taken traffic congestion charging system, effectively alleviate traffic congestion problem, and the local traffic operation efficiency has been improved significantly. Through continuous development and improvement, traffic congestion charging system has already been optimized, and has become a necessary measure of traffic jams.Traffic congestion charging system can not only effectively relieve urban congestion problem, also is helpful for the optimization of air quality and urban environmental protection. But implementing traffic congestion charging system is a systematic project,its implementation will last for a long time. Singapore and London also after fully research,for advice, take measures, draft legislations, and the specific implementation stages. At present, the traffic congestion charging system lack the legal mechanism, the internal conflicts of legal system and public opposition has become the important reasons for China to practice a system of traffic congestion fee. But with the increasing of urbantraffic congestion, the implementation of traffic congestion charging system for urban management is imminent.Currently, to better the traffic congestion charging system, set up reasonable congestion charging mechanism, strengthen the law publicity of traffic congestion charging system has become a necessary premise of our country’s traffic congestion fee.