Beijing Congestion Charges Open in 2015

On the 4th of November, following the announcement of the “Beijing 2013-2017 Motor Vehicle Emission Pollution Control Work Plan” of the Beijing Municipal People’s Government a week ago, the task decomposition table was also released. Starting from 2014, Beijing’s annual Yaohao indicator has decreased. To 150,000, this policy will be implemented until 2017. At the same time, traffic congestion fees in Beijing will also be implemented in 2015. The management of congestion will also require energy conservation and environmental protection. The proportion of new energy vehicles will increase year by year. It is expected that by 2017, new energy vehicles (excluding official vehicles) will reach 195,000 vehicles.

In the next year, the Yaohao indicator will be reduced to 150,000. According to the above task decomposition table, the number of small passenger car Yaohao will be reduced from 240000 units to 150,000 units per year in 2014. Among these, the proportion of new energy vehicles will increase year by year, not The index of new energy vehicles will be reduced year by year and is expected to be reduced to 90,000 vehicles/year in 2017. The probability of shaking the medium number will be lower than the current 1/90.

At the same time, Beijing Municipality will revise the “Implementation Rules for the Interim Regulations on the Control of the Number of Small Passenger Cars in Beijing”, and more than nine large and medium-sized passenger cars, trucks and other models will also be purchased.

The task decomposition table also proposed that the Municipal Traffic Committee and the Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau will learn from foreign experience, analyze the city's road traffic operation, tail gas pollution monitoring data, study and formulate the policy of collecting traffic congestion charges in low-emissions areas, and the fastest time for the introduction of policies. It will also take place in 2015 before it can be implemented.

This time, the "congestion fee" that has been in the state of "recruiting opinions" has finally surfaced. In 2010, the transportation department proposed that if the growth rate of motor vehicles does not decrease, by 2015, the vehicle population may reach 7 million vehicles, the average speed of the road network will be less than 15 km/hour, and the congestion index will reach 9.5 or more. This data means that the speed of driving in Beijing is almost the same as that of amateur marathon runners. The concept of congestion charging is frequently mentioned by the public and public opinion. From time to time, there is news that congestion charges may be levied.

The so-called traffic congestion fee means that users are charged a certain amount of fees during the busy hours of busy road sections. The essence of the policy is to use the supply and demand mechanism to limit the traffic density at the peak of urban roads in order to ease the traffic congestion in the city. The earliest country to collect congestion fees was Singapore, and Seoul, London, Stockholm and Milan successively implemented the policy. In 2008, New York also proposed to collect congestion fees and was terminated by strong opposition from the parliament. This policy has obvious benefits in some cities, but some cities have made little progress, such as London.

Immediately after the news broke out, the public’s hot discussion began. In an online survey, the proportion of disapproval of congestion fees reached 87.18%. Everyone has talked about traffic congestion fees in the following points: First, it is hoped that the congestion charge collected will be open and transparent and used for public transport construction; Second, the congestion charge should not only be for individual vehicles, but also for buses. There are special restrictions; Third, after the congestion charge is collected, the public will certainly choose public transport. This requires clearing up public transport. In October of this year, there were four breakdowns on the Beijing Metro Line 10, and each failure brought great inconvenience to the public.

Cui Dongshu, deputy secretary-general of the National Passenger Vehicle Market Information Association, said: “This is a reasonable approach. Although it is not effective in some countries, Beijing collects congestion fees because it also collects buses. The number of buses in Beijing is relatively large. Therefore, the travel of the bus can be controlled. This measure is much better than the limit."

The new enthusiasm for new energy vehicles in addition to governance congestion, energy conservation and environmental protection is also one of the government's important goals. Therefore, in the Yaohao indicator, the proportion of new energy vehicles will increase year by year, from 20,000 to 30,000, 60,000 and 60,000 vehicles from 2014 to 2017 respectively. It is estimated that new energy vehicles will be built by 2017 (not The market share of official vehicles will reach 195,000.

The increasing proportion of new energy vehicles means that there are fewer and fewer Yaohao indicators for ordinary cars. By 2017, only 90,000 indicators for Beijing car buyers to buy ordinary, non-new energy vehicles.

In addition, a series of supporting facilities for new energy vehicles will also keep pace with this. Within this year, Beijing will build 100 gas filling stations and 2120 charging piles. By next year, Beijing will build 86 gas filling stations and 42 power stations for charging and replacing 42 Blocks, 30,980 charging piles, 41,500 transformer piles, and 35 kilometers of double-sourced trackless nets.

In addition, the Municipal Development and Reform Commission and the Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau will also take the lead in formulating a series of economic policies to increase the use of motor vehicles. Such as research and development of fuel sewerage fees, stepped oil prices and parking fees differential policies.