In the early morning of February 4, "Shanghai Release"** released a message saying that according to the suggestions of the majority of public passengers, the Municipal Transportation Commission decided to resume online car-hailing operation services in the Pudong Airport area from February 4, and citizen passengers can make reservations for cars in the Pudong Airport area through various online car-hailing platforms.
The reporter found that the reporter found that Didi Chuxing, AutoNavi Map, Meituan Taxi and other platforms have resumed ride-hailing services in the Pudong Airport area.
The new regulations were repealed within a week of their promulgation, and the decision to pat people on the head to "change the order at the moment" makes people can't help but sigh: why did a problem that was not a problem become a problem?
Citizen:
There is a demand for online car-hailing
It can't be banned
On January 29, 2024, the Shanghai Municipal Road Transport Administration issued the Notice on Prohibiting the Operation of Online Ride-hailing at Pudong Airport (hereinafter referred to as the "Notice"), which strictly prohibits online ride-hailing platforms and aggregation platforms from publishing ride-hailing information that originates in the Pudong Airport area and the border roads involved.
On the day of the notice, there were still online car-hailing operations in the area near Pudong Airport. According to another report, when using a large online car-hailing platform to call a taxi at Pudong Airport on February 2, it was no longer possible to place an order.
Notice of disconnection. Passengers have the demand to call online car-hailing, which shows that online car-hailing into the airport has its reasonableness, so it cannot be banned all at once, and should start by strengthening management to make online car-hailing enter the airport to pick up passengers in a safer and more orderly manner. Mr. Jiang, a citizen, said.
At the same time, he also said that although it is very convenient to call a car, online car-hailing is generally waiting in the airport parking lot, and while providing passengers with ride services, there are problems that affect the order of the airport.
Chen Yuefeng, deputy dean of the Law School of East China University of Political Science and Law, said that during the Spring Festival, people usually travel a lot of money, and from the perspective of transportation organization, the supply should be more fully organized, rather than having no legal basis and no legitimate and necessary reasons to restrict.
Chen Yuefeng believes that when cruise taxis line up to store cars, online car-hailing cannot queue, "It is neither justified nor reasonable to extend it to the entire airport." It restricts the right of ride-hailing drivers to operate, and also involves fair competition with cruise cars, which infringes on the right to fair competition of ride-hailing vehicles."
Don't "add blockage" to the returnees
In order to ensure the smooth and orderly landside traffic at Pudong Airport, especially during the Spring Festival travel period, it is strictly forbidden for online car-hailing to solicit passengers in the Pudong Airport area", looking back at Shanghai's controversial "Notice on Prohibiting Online Car-hailing from Operating at Pudong Airport", it is really puzzling: Why did the Spring Festival transportation and online car-hailing become two sides of the conflict?
As we all know, after several years of development, online car-hailing with transportation operation qualifications and road traffic management requirements has long become an important part of social public transportation. According to the statistics of the online car-hailing regulatory information interaction system, as of December 31, 2023, a total of 657 online car-hailing driver licenses have been issued across the country20,000 copies, 279 vehicle transport certificates20,000 copies, in December 2023 alone, a total of 8 orders have been received for online car-hailing across the country9.4 billion orders. All of this is provenOnline car-hailing is the choice of the market and plays an irreplaceable role in public transportation.
As the second largest airport in the country in terms of passenger throughput in 2023, Pudong Airport should be trying to strengthen its transportation capacity to make it easier and faster for passengers and citizens to reach their destinations on the occasion of the Spring Festival, but the local authorities have done the opposite and forcibly stopped online car-hailing, and it is no wonder that the public is in an uproar. According to another report, while stopping online car-hailing, Pudong Airport has an "airport travel" service, which allows you to place an online order to book a driver, but ** is more expensive than the previous online car-hailing service, which has also aroused many netizens' questions.
On the occasion of the Spring Festival, "saving time and money" online car-hailing is an effective way to alleviate the pressure of returning home and traveling. From the perspective of the service awareness of online car-hailing platforms, many platforms have proposed to encourage drivers to be on duty during the Spring Festival transportation period in the form of commission-free and station subsidies, and guide drivers to give priority to ensuring the demand for passenger cars at stations; From the perspective of convenience, passengers can place orders online in advance according to the travel time, which can save waiting time and improve travel efficiency; In terms of capacity guarantee, the online car-hailing platform can accurately meet the travel needs of passengers in key places in terms of real-time capacity scheduling based on its big data analysis capabilities, effectively alleviating traffic congestion.
Based on the "natural advantages" of online car-hailing, Beijing and other cities have introduced measures to encourage online car-hailing to participate in the Spring Festival transportation guarantee. Local governments encourage online car-hailing to participate in the Spring Festival transportation, which is not only a recognition of the protection and value of the rights and interests of online car-hailing, but also respects the travel habits of passengers, conforms to the needs of social development, and can effectively solve the heavy transportation tasks of the Spring Festival.
The introduction of a policy cannot be "decided by tapping the brain", nor can it be "used as soon as it is used". Shanghai's "new policy" for online car-hailing is a continuation of the 2016 "Several Provisions on the Administration of Online Taxi Reservation Services in Shanghai". Ignoring the reality of social development and the actual needs of the public, the regulations of eight years ago were "issued over and over again" in an anachronistic mannerThe working attitude and methods of the relevant departments are debatable. The Shanghai Municipal Transportation Commission was able to respond quickly to public opinion and resume the operation of online car-hailing at Pudong Airport, which is indeed worthy of recognition. But it has to be said that such public opinion should not have appeared.
Whether the airport can use online car-hailing or not, this is not a problem, and it has eventually become a hot issue in society, and the lessons brought are worth reflecting on and summarizing. First, the Spring Festival return home is the biggest hot spot and people's livelihood at present, under the continuous influence of rain and snow, how to make everyone on the road go home more quickly and smoothly, is a topic that needs to be done seriously in various placesWe must not "add to the blockage" for the broad masses. Second, in promulgating any administrative regulations, we must proceed from reality, proceed from the needs of the masses, think about what the masses think, and solve the difficulties of the masses, so as to obtain the greatest support and the best results.
Can I hail a taxi at the airport? Hopefully this is no longer an issue.