Transporte Individual Urbano e a regulação do aplicativo Uber

Abstract

This work aims to analyze urban individual transport s regulation after the arrival of applications such as Uber to rival the traditional and regulated taxi service. The analysis does not consider only issues of Economy, but also the urban regulation, urban mobility and citizens rights referred to urban life. Therefore, fundamentals of urban public policy, constitutional matters, the challenges urban mobility faces nowadays and the context given by urban regulation are presented. The long-aged and the new regulatory debates are described and the concept of public service also. The political liberalism by Rawls and his public reason instrumental are the keys for the argumentative construction of this work. Essential practical contextualization is made such as definition and keys differences between mass public and individual transport, the characteristics of taxi regulation and how apps like Uber work. Finally, it concludes for the need of revising individual transport regulation to divide it in three categories: two of the street taxi rank taxi and hailing taxi and the other would be by call. This last category is the one correspondent to the new apps and for it, there should be eliminated entry barriers. Doing this would allow the technological evolution of the service to take place, to satisfy better the citizens, to solve some of the traditional competition problems the taxi market presents, also to have more legal stability. Another important recommendation is to use this opportunity to work better on having information these apps could provide and using this to measure the real need of regulations and new proposals for the public policy of urban mobility.