Rethinking Taxi Regulations: The Case for Fundamental Reform

Farren, Michael D.; Koopman, Christopher; Mitchell, Matthew D.

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2838918

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“…This tendency is due to the need of turning this service public, aiming to minimize externalities arising from its use (public takeover), or due to the requirement of deregulate with the objective of self-market equilibrium (Cairns and Liston-heyes, 1996;Cetin and Eryigit, 2013;Schaller, 2007;The Transport Committee, 2004). Recently, the ride-hailing platforms boosted the need of regulation adjustments (European Transport Safety Concil [ETSC], 2016;Farren, Koopman, and Mitchell, 2016;Rienstra, Bakker, and Visser, 2015).…”

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How does the ride-hailing systems demand affect individual transport regulation?

Silva

Andrade

Maia

2018

Research in Transportation Economics

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This paper analyses, on the light of the Brazilian legislation, the individual transport legal issues derived by the entrance of the ride-hailing companies into the market. The legal problem of ridesourcing services revolves around determining its nature as public or private. Regarding this, changes in the current legislation have being proposed to characterize the service as illegal or legal and to force the delimitations of its operation before the transport network of each municipality. In addition, this paper analyses socio demographic and travel characteristics of the Brazilian ridesourcing demand. Based on this demand point of view, a logistic regression model was generated to predict the probability of riderspliting system use. The results show that the majority of ridesourcing trips is replacing taxi and public transport trips. According to the logistic regression model, safety is the main reason that influences the decision of sharing trips via ridespliting. The other relevant factors are directly or indirectly related to service cost. The use of larger vehicles for sharing trips can become a competitive mode for public transport and generate a greater clash between public transport and ridesourcing companies than the one between the taxi industry and technology companies.

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Section: Regulatory Issues In Brazilmentioning

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How does the ride-hailing systems demand affect individual transport regulation?

Silva

Andrade

Maia

2018

Research in Transportation Economics

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“…While taxi drivers often argue that regulations should apply equally to ride-share drivers who operate in the same market, many researchers emphasize that the current taxi industry regulations are obsolete (Miller 2016; Posen 2015; Rauch and Schleicher 2015). Researchers have pointed out that taxi drivers are at a disadvantage because ride-sharing companies employ an automatic price surge algorithm that taxis cannot compete with due to regulated fares (Harding, Kandlikar, and Gulati 2016), and taxi drivers are required to pay fees of licensing and leasing while Uber and Lyft drivers easily use their own vehicles without additional expenses (Farren, Koopman, and Mitchell 2016). We point out that there are actually many more intricate regulations and practices that impinge on taxi drivers’ ability to control their livelihoods and ultimately to compete with Uber.…”

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The Leased Among Us: Precarious Work, Local Regulation, and the Taxi Industry

Esbenshade

Shifrin

2018

Labor Studies Journal

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Through a case study of the taxi industry in San Diego, where 89 percent of drivers leased their vehicles as independent contractors (IC), we show how local regulation has enforced precarity. We find that the interaction of policies from various local governmental agencies has actually required lease drivers to operate as ICs and has simultaneously undermined the very control and economic independence that is fundamental to the IC designation. While the literature on precarious employment and IC misclassification tends to emphasize the role of macroeconomic structures, employer action, and federal government policy, this article highlights the role of local regulatory agencies.

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“…These changes cannot but affect the effectiveness of the implementation of existing regulatory instruments for this market (Dudley, Banister & Schwanen, 2017, Darbera, 2017, Farren, Koopman & Mitchell, 2016. At the same time, most of the requirements and regulations of the taxi market existing in the Republic of Belarus have changed only slightly compared to 2015, when digital platforms were not presented in the Belarusian taxi market.…”

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Specific Features and Problem Aspects of Adapting the Taxi Market Regulatory Mechanism to Business Models Built on Digital Platforms

Erchak¹,

Микулич²,

Гавриленко³

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Proceedings of International Scientific and Practical Conference “Russia 2020 - A New Reality: Economy and Society” (ISPCR 2020

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The article reflects the results of a study of the Belarusian taxi market and trends in its development. The authors highlight the specific features, patterns of its development, as well as the problems of functioning and regulation in the context of the rapid spread of digital platforms and business models based on digital data. The survey of taxi drivers made it possible to determine the common features and differences in the organization of work of drivers of traditional taxi operators and drivers who provide taxi services in the framework of interaction with digital platforms. When assessing the effectiveness and efficiency of market regulation, the problem field of application and specific features of the functioning of the taxi market in the Republic of Belarus were identified, as well as directions for solving the identified problems were developed. The set of measures of state regulation of the taxi market considered in the article will allow for obtaining a significant effect in the field of reducing the level of costs, providing additional revenues to the budget, reducing the degree of cross-subsidization of urban passenger transport, and also ensuring a balance of interests of the state, entrepreneurs and the population in the field of transportation. The approbation of the developments and the information obtained as a result will make it possible to extend this mechanism to the regulation of the irregular road transport market, or to modify certain elements and methods of interaction in order to achieve harmonization and balance of interests.

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Rethinking Taxi Regulations: The Case for Fundamental Reform

Cited by 10 publications

References 3 publications

How does the ride-hailing systems demand affect individual transport regulation?

How does the ride-hailing systems demand affect individual transport regulation?

The Leased Among Us: Precarious Work, Local Regulation, and the Taxi Industry

Specific Features and Problem Aspects of Adapting the Taxi Market Regulatory Mechanism to Business Models Built on Digital Platforms

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