Analysis of the world experience of the state regulatory and legal regulation of electric bus transport

this article considers the issue of studying the world experience of legal regulation of electric bus transport as a separate type in the transport systems of cities and agglomerations. This type of transport has been actively developing in Russia since 2018, every year the number of cities using it in permanent passenger operation is growing. However, there are gaps in terms of legal regulation of this type of transport, which complicates the process of operating electric bus transport, including from an economic point of view. This analysis is necessary to assess the existing best world practices in state regulation of activities related to the functioning of this type of transport with the subsequent formation of proposals for the implementation of best practices in the domestic regulatory framework. The experience of key global users of electric buses is studied. It is determined that electric bus transport, although initially considered a part of bus transport, currently in most of the countries under consideration has its own regulatory documents allowing to evaluate the assembly process, safety level and quality of operation. Regulatory regulation is not widespread everywhere, but it can be noted: the greater the volume of operation of electric bus transport in the country, the more regulatory documents for this type of transport. The most noteworthy is the positive experience of China in state regulation of individual processes related to electric buses, which can be extrapolated to domestic practice in the future. The collected experience allows in the future to form a domestic analogue of the most significant documents and improve the regulatory and operational processes of electric bus transport in the country.

public administration, state sectoral transport policy, urban electric transport, transport development, regulatory regulation, electric buses, world experience