THE INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL FACTORS ON IMPROVEMENT OF STATE REGULATION OF PUBLIC PASSENGER TRANSPORT

Abstract

The article describes the main factors affecting the activities of public passenger road transport. It is determined that the economic policy in the field of state regulation of public passenger transport should be considered as an important part of the General state economic and social policy aimed at improving the quality of life of the population. It is also proposed that the formation and implementation of economic policy should be associated with the creation of effective methods, procedures and mechanisms of social and economic justification of subsidies and the establishment of effective tariffs for transportation aimed at preserving and developing the public transport system, consistent with the development plans, as well as the rational management of routes in order to optimize them using a set of socio-economic constraints.

It is proved that traffic safety management is the most important function of the state, which should be effectively and comprehensively implemented as part of the mechanisms and procedures of public transport management. The quantitative growth of vehicles in Ukraine is not accompanied by qualitative changes in the positive direction. On the contrary, the wear and tear of the vehicle fleet is increasing every year, which is the cause of increased environmental pollution, accidents and high transport costs. As shown above, one of the elements of such a system is the restriction of the age of minibuses allowed on passenger routes.

The choice of social policy should be preceded by the modeling of its main characteristics and results, so it is advisable to create and use such models in the practice of state macroeconomic regulation. Improving the efficiency of state regulation should be provided by the tax regulation of the activities of passenger transport enterprises and private carriers through legal mechanisms, as well as a number of organizational measures to ensure the certification of routes, monitoring of transportation processes and their financing from the budget, improving the mechanism and procedures for information support of the processes of economic policy formation and its implementation.