A Brief Analysis of the Changes in the Taxi Industry under the New Situation

The taxi industry is an important window service industry in cities, which plays an important role in improving urban functions, facilitating people's travel, and expanding social employment. In recent years, various regions and relevant departments have actively explored effective ways to promote the reform and development of the taxi industry, and have achieved certain positive results. However, the deep-seated contradictions accumulated in the taxi industry over the long term have not been fundamentally resolved. The rapid development of new formats such as ride hailing has enriched the travel experience of the people, but has also brought about some new situations and problems. The combination of old and new contradictions creates a complex situation, and unstable events in the industry occur from time to time, seriously affecting the healthy and sustainable development of the taxi industry and making it difficult to meet the personalized travel needs of the people. In addition, the sudden outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020 has greatly affected people's daily travel, and the entire industry is facing tremendous pressure. Perhaps 2020 is an important time node for the traditional taxi industry to comprehensively embrace innovation and upgrading