This paper work examines the legal regulation of the non-scheduled public transport sector in Italy to highlight how the lack of a competitive market is caused by the persistence of strong legal barriers to entry of operators. The lack of competition and the difficulty of entry of new operators that use transport methods connected to technological and IT tools is linked to the need to protect the numerous social purposes that characterize this type of service. The growing change in collective needs pushes the current legislator towards new regulatory objectives: they must preserve the old social aims, still present, and manage the new forms of transport carried out with technological platforms without altering the public function that this service continues to satisfy.
Markets Waiting for the Market Platforms: the System’s Resistance to Protecting the General Interest
GIOMI V.
2020-01-01
Abstract
This paper work examines the legal regulation of the non-scheduled public transport sector in Italy to highlight how the lack of a competitive market is caused by the persistence of strong legal barriers to entry of operators. The lack of competition and the difficulty of entry of new operators that use transport methods connected to technological and IT tools is linked to the need to protect the numerous social purposes that characterize this type of service. The growing change in collective needs pushes the current legislator towards new regulatory objectives: they must preserve the old social aims, still present, and manage the new forms of transport carried out with technological platforms without altering the public function that this service continues to satisfy.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
