Externalities of sharing bicycles and their governance(PDF)
《长安大学学报（社科版）》[ISSN:1671-6248/CN:61-1391/C]
- Issue:
- 2018年02期
- Page:
- 22-31
- Research Field:
- 交通运输
- Publishing date:
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- Title:
- Externalities of sharing bicycles and their governance
- Author(s):
- ZHANG Xin-wen; 2; DAI Fen-yuan
- Keywords:
- sharing bicycles; externalities; internalisation; urban governance; quasipublic goods
- PACS:
- F572,F724.6
- DOI:
- -
- Abstract:
- For solving the “last mile” problem of public travel,the concept of sharing bicycles can lead to several social issues. As quasipublic goods that are utilised for both private and public use, sharing bicycles can be exclusive and noncompetitive. Thus, the market is unable to complete the internalisation of spillover earnings, showing the strong externality of productivity. While analysing externalities, it was found that the process of generating externalities by sharing bicycles can be divided into two stages: production and consumption. On the one hand, this process can lead to traditional bicycle manufacturing, alleviate traffic congestion, have an alternative effect, and optimise the urban ecological environment, all of which comprehensively generates four positive externalities of economic benefit, public transportation, social benefit, and environmental benefit. On the other hand, the production and consumption of shared bikes hurt the traditional economy, and increase safety issues related to bicycles, uncivilised behaviour, as well as financial information risk. These issues comprehensively generate four negative externalities of economic blow, traffic management, moral dilemma as well as financial information risk. Thus, the internalisation of the sharing bicycles’ externality is a process of correcting externalities and ultimately achieving the Pareto optimal. Thus, the key lies in the multigovernance framework by combining both macroregulation and market mechanism and the longterm mechanism that combines shortterm measures via longterm planning, which truly help serve the urban development and urban life.
Last Update: 2018-05-31