Taxi software legal status by the clear

Beijing Daily (Reporter Zhang Xu Wang) taxi software finally get legal status. Yesterday, the Ministry of Transport formally promulgated the "Circular on Promoting the Orderly Development of Calling Services for Taxi Calls of Mobile Phone Software Leased Vehicles" (hereinafter referred to as the "Notice"), and requested "the unified access management of gradually realizing the taxi call service" At the same time, also requires "a unified platform operation shall not affect the proper function and healthy competition of mobile phone software."

The Circular clarifies various directions for the development of taxi call service and the core is to gradually realize the unified access management of taxi call service.

However, it is different from the policy of "one-size-fits-all" and "safety and security" or even "forbidding" of taxi software by local regulators in previous years. The Circular allows a wide range of application of "mobile phone to mobile phone" innovative mode of mobile Internet in the travel field, Accurate calculation of big data, mobile phones on the phone "as the core of technological innovation, retained the right to self-scheduling business.

This means that for the first time, the state has established the legal status of taxi software at the central policy level. For the ultimate direction of "unified access management," the relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Transportation pointed out that "management actually requires that all kinds of call-for-demand information be unified in the information platform of the city's taxi service management for the purpose of realizing the call Traceability of service information, service process supervision, passenger rights and interests can be protected, technically very easy to achieve. " The time to unify the platform, whether to use the existing platform is also not mandatory.

Loose policy also let the taxi software sigh. Fast taxi relevant responsible person pointed out that the "notification" affirmed the taxi software on the community, users and even the future of intelligent traffic travel value and significance, especially which mentioned that "platform operation shall not affect the legitimate functions of mobile phone software and the healthy competition "This one is good for the future development of the industry. The drop hit a taxi CEO Cheng Wei also believes that the "notice" established the legal status of taxi software to clear the policy barriers, the government regulatory and market boundaries on a policy initiative.