摘要: |
This report is a part of a wider research into the UK licensed taxi market. As part of this wider research, the Office of Fair Trading wants to compare and analyze the regulatory regimes governing the taxis markets in a number of countries to ascertain if these can provide information about and/or improve competition and consumer welfare within the UK market. The overall goal of this report is to use the experience of regulatory reform in taxi markets around the world to inform the thinking on the UK market. The underlying foundation for selecting the case cities and countries has been to cover a number of countries or cities that have either undergone regulatory reform or which have very diverse regulatory systems. Based on this, we have selected Ireland, Sweden, the Netherlands, Norway and New Zealand as our primary case countries. Major changes have also occurred in Canada and the US. We have thus included a survey of the experience of deregulation in these countries as well. |