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The Fiscal Externalities of Platform-Based Urban Mobility — When Convenience Conceals Public Cost Shifting

The Fiscal Externalities of Platform-Based Urban Mobility — When Convenience Conceals Public Cost Shifting

平台型城市出行的财政外部性——便利表象下隐藏的公共成本转嫁

  1. Ride-hailing and micro-mobility platforms generate revenue while offloading infrastructure maintenance, traffic enforcement, and congestion management onto municipalities.
  2. City budgets absorb rising costs for road repaving damaged by high-frequency vehicle turnover and parking violations tied to app-based dispatch.
  3. Zoning regulations rarely account for the spatial concentration of pickup/drop-off zones, amplifying localized wear and emergency response delays.
  4. Tax structures treat platform drivers as independent contractors, excluding them from payroll tax contributions that fund unemployment and disability insurance.
  5. Public transit ridership declines correlate strongly with ride-hailing penetration—yet subsidies for transit remain flat while mobility subsidies grow.
  6. Municipalities lack authority to levy usage fees proportional to curb-space occupation or emissions generated per platform trip.
  7. Data asymmetry prevents cities from auditing platform routing algorithms that may worsen traffic bottlenecks near schools or hospitals.
  8. Insurance models fail to internalize accident externalities when platforms classify drivers as non-employees with limited liability coverage.
  9. Urban planning increasingly treats streets as 'platform infrastructure'—but without commensurate revenue-sharing or performance benchmarks.
  10. This fiscal leakage erodes the equity principle underlying public investment in transportation networks.
  11. Effective regulation demands granular cost attribution—not just caps on vehicle numbers or vague 'sustainability' pledges.
  12. Mobility convenience becomes socially sustainable only when its full fiscal footprint is transparent and collectively governed.
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