Research On The Relationship Between Taxi Market And Government Regulation

Taxi with comfort, high efficiency and the characteristics of point to point transport, is one of the important traffic tools for people. but right now it's both quantity and quality of service can not meet the needs of the consumers. Based on regulatory capture theory and incentive regulation, this study focuses on xi'an taxi market, by analyzing the current situation of xi'an taxi market, the study points out that the contradiction between supply and demand of xi'an taxi is outstanding. The charter access patterns, the taxi price inelastic set space, both suggest that the government restricted the taxi market regulations by limiting the taxi number, making barriers to entry and reducing the pricing flexibility, which changed the taxi management right becomes a scarce resource. Based on the case study, three conclusions can be drawn:government regulation of the taxi quantity regulation didn't work well as expected, government regulation of single taxi access mode is too simple,the taxi pricing set up space is narrow, and countermeasures and suggestions be put forward based on the conclusions from the taxi number, barriers to entry and pricing mechanism, expect the conclusion and recommendations of this study was to improve the taxi market of government regulation has the reference value.