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

Abstract

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.