Secretary-General of CPCA Suggests Increasing Online Ride-hailing Fees to Reduce Traffic Congestion in Beijing

Cui Dongshu, the Secretary-General of the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA), claimed on NetEase News’ Insight program on April 12 that on-line ride-hailing companies are primarily liable for site visitors congestion in Beijing. According to Cui, “In Beijing, taking a taxi is cheap. Therefore, we should raise the cost of using online ride-hailing services considerably to alleviate congestion.”

According to Cui, personal automobiles are sometimes pushed for under 2-3 hours per day, whereas ride-hailing automobiles are on the street for greater than 15 hours each day. To handle the overuse of low-cost journey choices like ride-hailing companies, Cui suggests elevating costs.

According to an official doc from the Beijing Government, there have been 7.128 million motor autos in the town by the tip of 2022, which is an increase of 278,000 in contrast to the earlier 12 months. The quantity of civilian automobiles elevated by 113,000 from final 12 months and reached 6.256 million in whole; out of these automobiles, personal ones accounted for five.326 million.

On March 2, Baidu Map revealed its “2022 China Urban Traffic Report,” revealing that Beijing was ranked second amongst China’s most congested cities this 12 months after being ranked first in the earlier 12 months.

Cui identified that gasoline automobile customers at the moment pay excessive taxes with out receiving equal advantages. He instructed lifting Beijing’s site visitors restrictions and implementing efficient laws for the brand new vitality automobile trade.

In its evaluation of the nationwide passenger automobile market in March, the CPCA acknowledged that as new vitality automobile possession continues to quickly develop, privileged insurance policies for these autos will inevitably be canceled.

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According to Cui, the expansion of new vitality autos in China is going on too rapidly. Currently, over 30% of newly added autos are new vitality autos and this quantity is anticipated to enhance to 36% this 12 months and presumably 45% subsequent 12 months. By 2025, it’s projected that new vitality automobile gross sales will surpass these of conventional gasoline autos, rendering present coverage help out of date. Therefore, Cui suggests {that a} separate license plate system for brand new vitality autos is pointless.

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