New Approaches to Self-Regulation of Passenger Taxi Transportation

The increase in the value of time and the acceleration of the pace of life of modern society contribute to the constant growth in demand for taxi services, despite the fact that meeting the need for mobility is possible in other ways, including by car sharing or purchasing a personal car. In the context of digitalization and popularization of platform solutions, including services for ordering passenger taxis, the demand for transportation by this means of transport is steadily increasing. The authors state that legal acts aimed at regulating public relations in the field of passenger taxi transportation do not ensure a balance of interests of participants in the relevant legal relations. They also do not contribute to improving the quality of services in this area. The paper concludes that the sphere of passenger taxi transportation objectively needs to form a self-regulatory environment where large taxi aggregators occupy key positions. At the same time, it is noted that the existing system of self-regulation in this area, represented by the existing SROs, is ineffective, which argues for a new approach to self-regulation of passenger taxi transportation. While maintaining the general legislative requirements stipulated by public legal regulation, primarily in the context of ensuring safety, the authors propose to provide participants in the transportation process with the opportunity to independently form a new regulatory environment, ensuring a balance of interests of carriers with passenger taxis, aggregators and consumers of the corresponding service. 

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