How to design the Dutch taxi market anno 2015

The Dutch taxi market has a long history of regulation and deregulation. Dutch policy makers have had a difficult time to create an optimal functioning market. The policy makers failed to account for the inherent problems the taxi market faced. New initiatives like Uber claim to be a solution to many of these problems. This thesis discusses the problems that are present in the taxi market anno 2015. Several basic market variants, each with their own key market characteristics, are examined to what degree they provide solutions to these problems. One of the analysed basic market variants turned out to have the competence of mitigating most of the problems. The Dutch taxi market anno 2015 requires a very different regulatory approach in order to mitigate the inherent problems the market faces. A distinction between call and street taxis should be made and a regulated fare and quantity control should be introduced for street taxis.