Road Passenger Transport Perspective And Open Competition In Mauritius

Licensing System for Road Transport in Mauritius

Question:

Discuss about the Quality and Quantity Licensing Transport In Mauritius.

The report has been seen to discuss the different types of the consideration for depicting road passenger transport perspective and open competition along with the licensing system. The company selected to support the specific examples has been further seen to be identified based on Celero operating in Mauritius.

The road passenger transport services in Mauritius are needed for an individual for the carrying persons as per hire or reward and ten or more persons. The hire or reward passenger transport has been further seen to be based on the Health Service Executive or Department of Social Protection. In case the passengers carriage is not identified as the main profession then the individual does not needs license. For instance, a hotel owning a bus uses ferry, as complementary service to and fro from the airport then an individual does not needs to have a license.  Several types of the other passengers are also seen to be exempted from the Road Transport Act 2011 (Florens 2013).

It has been discerned that there may be a requirement for the route license to operate the passenger services and specified number of the terminal points. The main types of the requirements in order to obtain a road passenger transport operator license has been discerned with having an establishment in the state, having a decent reputation, satisfy professional competence and stating of appropriate financial standing (Ramtohul 2015).

In addition to this, “The Road Transport Operator Licensing Unit of the Department of Transport”, “Tourism and Sport” has been further seen to be based on the application of the various types of the “Road Haulage Operator Licences” and “Road Passenger Transport Operator Licences”. In addition to this, substitution or the removal of the vehicles are considered as per the terms of the licenses. In order to have an operator license, the transport goods for hiring and reward using of vehicle with maximum permitted weight has been seen to be based on a total consideration of 3.5 tonnes (Sultan 2015). The transport passengers for the hire or reward using a vehicle should be equipped and constructed for carrying a total of nine or more passengers. The various documents for the road haulage has been further seen with “National Road Haulage Operator Licence”, “International Road Haulage Operator Licence” and “Bilateral Permit”. It has been further seen that Celero has been able to include the different consideration for the Road Haulage and Road Passenger Transport. This is seen to be evident with the use of “National Road Passenger Transport Operator Licence”, “International Road Passenger Transport Operator Licence” and providing guide to the “Road Passenger Transport Operator Licensing” (Heywood and Wang 2015).

Conclusion

The important consideration for the licensing terms has been considered as per 1A, this has been considered with the National or International Licence. The application for this has been based on a total tenure of five years. The national road passenger transport has been further able to state on the transport Operator Licence entitled within the states.

References

Florens, F. B. V. (2013) ‘Conservation: Mauritius threatens its own biodiversity.’, Nature, 493(7434), pp. 608–9. doi: 10.1038/493608d.

Heywood, J. S. and Wang, Z. (2015) ‘How to license a transport innovation’, Annals of Regional Science, 55(2–3), pp. 485–500. doi: 10.1007/s00168-015-0710-0.

Ramtohul, R. (2015) ‘Intersectionality and women’s political citizenship: The case of Mauritius’, Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 33(1), pp. 27–47. doi: 10.1080/02589001.2015.1024008.

Sultan, R. (2015) ‘Modelling behavioural change for sustainable transport in Mauritius’, International Journal of Sustainable Society, 7(2), pp. 188–204. doi: 10.1504/IJSSOC.2015.069906.