Market Review of Moscow Taxi.

The structure, prices, prospects, taxi drivers battle with bombilami ... What is afraid of the passengers ... a complete review of the market. Moscow - a huge city, which resolved almost all issues related to the servicing of the population. Open, except for jams and parking lots, the question remains of movement in the taxi. According to unofficial data, in Moscow on lived about 20 million people, according to the latest census, conducted in 2003 - 10 million at such a huge city accounts for about 6 thousand legal taxi. And on the day taken from passengers about 40 thousand calls ... 26 January, 2007 passed a law «About a taxi in Moscow». Until then taxi carriage does not regulated (and now, although regulated, but the order is still not added). «In a civilized city should be civilized taxi, and Muscovites must have a guarantee that they can at any time to take advantage of this service», - said the head of the Department of Transport and Communications Leonid Lipsits Moscow on the day of adoption of the law, adding that at the moment need city is 24-25 thousand taxi. Calculate how many illegals-private daily go on the road to capture passengers - is impossible. For this, you calculate all the «five», «six», «G» and «Ninth» in the city. Plus all the «Volga» and owners of old cars. This number can add tens of thousands of «ad hoc» bombs on a case by case podvozyaschih passengers. According to different sources, from 70 to 80% travel is illegal taxi drivers. All this could not be better as he describes the chaos that's going on in the taxi market. Activities that need to license (licensing was abolished in 2005), countless private taxi services, a shortage of taxis government, and above all this - bombily, cocky othvativshie a large part of the market. A taxi market annual turnover, according to some estimates, reached in Moscow billion dollars ... Still, something is changing for the better in the taxi market. The difference in price that you bomb and called a taxi dispatcher, is gradually declining. People who do not want to risk their lives because of a hundred rubles «winning», is not so little. The competition between private taxi service simply inconceivable. For any company has a web site (companies of all sites in Moscow about a thousand), and ads on Yandex-directives. Many machines installed equipment to be able to pay for the travel card. Coming soon become scarce taxis, which do not take credit - this here is dynamic. Moreover, each taxi service now tries as the stand out against the backdrop of the rest, trying to create a brand.