Pickup, can you enter the city?

Allowing entering the city is just the first step

Lin Zhijing, owner of a restaurant owner living in Changsha, Hunan, has recently bought a car with another model -pickup.

The reason is that recently, Changsha has released restrictions on pickups. Recently, Changsha issued the "Notice on Limited Freight Vehicles in Parts and Road Sections in Changsha". The notice shows that starting from September 5, 2022, pickups will be unobstructed throughout the city without obtaining a pass.

Prior to this, Lin Zhijing had always been hesitant because of the model, because if you bought a van, the main function of the car became a pull, it was not convenient to take a family out of the outing, and it would inevitably taste it in the car. Not convenient. And just let go of the restricted pickup models just meet the needs of Lin Zhijing.

In fact, in major cities recently, not only Changsha. Almost at the same time as Changsha, Shenzhen, first -tier cities, also launched a "loosening" policy for pickup cards. In addition, many cities including Suzhou and Yangzhou have recently launched similar policies.

In addition to small restaurant owners like Lin Zhijing, many pickup enthusiasts who like outdoor also exclaimed the "loosening" of pickups into the city. In the past two years, outdoor travel has become popular in many large cities in China, and pickups are exactly the key choice models for outdoor travel.

Pickup trucks are on the road. Photo/Visual China

Let go of more restrictions

In the past, because the model was classified as a truck, pickup cards, like other truck models, were strictly restricted into the main city by most large and medium cities. But recently, the wind direction has begun to change.

In addition to Changsha, many cities have recently released restrictions on pickups.

According to the incomplete statistics of China News Weekly, as of now, three of the four cities of the four and 15 new cities have completely lifted the picked card, namely Chongqing, Changsha, and Dongguan; Restrictions, including Shanghai and Shenzhen, two first -tier cities.

It is worth noting that although some large cities have relaxed restrictions on pickups, they still have certain conditions.

On August 31, the Transportation Administration of the Suzhou Public Security Bureau issued the "Notice on Adjusting Light Multi -purpose trucks (pickups) and light vans and closed new energy trucks (drafts for comments).

The above -mentioned solicitation draft proposes that the pickups are allowed to pass on the city road from 9:00 to 16:30, 18:30 to 7:00 the next day.

This means that the morning peak from 7: 00 ~ 9:00 daily and late peaks from 16: 30 ~ 18: 30, there are still restrictions on pickups into the city. But even so, the right of pickups in Suzhou has been greatly relaxed.

In the eyes of many industry insiders, this round of "loosening" policies for pickups in various places may stimulate consumption may be the most direct purpose.

This year, in the "Opinions on Further Release of Consumption Potential to Promote Consumption Consumption" issued by the State Council, in the documents of "Policy Measures for Solid the Economy" documents, "loosening" the pickup into the city.

According to Cheng Shidong, director of the Urban Transportation Center of the Institute of Comprehensive Transportation of the National Development and Reform Commission, such a strategy is to directly drive investment, promote consumption, and allow ordinary people to buy vehicles. "Because in many cities, the demand for purchasing pickups is objective, and the 'lifting' policy of major cities has actually released this part of demand." He said.

Data show that in July 2022, my country's pickup market sales reached 44,000 units, an increase of 11.9%year -on -year. SAIC -Datong pickup cards, Jianghuai pickups, and Changan pickups have increased large, respectively, 115%, 121.6%, and 115.2%, respectively.

In fact, in the past few years, the voices of pickups into the city have been very strong. The important controversy is whether it should define pickups as trucks and manage the model of the truck.

Wang Yan, a researcher at the Consultic Consultant Urban Economic Research Center, told China News Weekly that this dispute involves the multi -purpose of pickup. Because pickups have both the function of passenger cars, but also have the ability to load and adapt to poor pavement. In traditional classification, the pickup card has been managed according to the truck. Wang Yan said that with the improvement of pickup passenger attributes and improvement, pickups are increasingly inclined to passenger cars during the development process.

"The fundamental controversy is that the dual -purpose vehicle of passenger and freight is more focused on the transportation of the truck or the passenger car." Wang Yan said.

In this round of "lifting the ban" policy, many areas have also focused on the difference between pickups and ordinary trucks.

For example, Yangzhou released the "Announcement on Adjusting the Limited Measures for Restricting Tolerance of Car, Special Operations, and Agricultural Vehicles in the urban area in March this year, and distinguished the pickup with other trucks to implement different restricted management measures, except for urban expressways In addition to the tunnel, pickups are allowed to pass in other roads in Yangzhou.

Why does the city need pickup card

In the 1930s, pickups first appeared in the United States. Simple and durable and diverse pickups are one of the favorite models of Americans. Open the car sales rankings in a month in the United States, and there are absolutely pickup cards in the first three.

As we all know, the United States is wide and sparse, and the vast farm scenes are naturally suitable for tough and unrestrained pickups. But as far as the situation in China is concerned, does the main city in the city really need pickup cards?

Compared with the diversified pickup Card culture in the United States, regardless of the restrictions on pickups or "loosening" pickups in China, it is more considered from the realistic level.

Wang Yan believes that from the perspective of demand, with the upgrading of domestic automobile consumption, the number of enthusiasts such as micro -vacation, camping, off -road, etc. increased significantly. And sports enthusiasts will choose pickup cards. However, compared to the demand for consumption upgrades such as outdoor camping, the urgent demand for pickup cards comes from the production end of the city.

Gu Dasong, Executive Director of the Research Center of Southeast University's Traffic and Development Research Center, told China News Weekly that for many small producers in many urban or suburbs, the use of light trucks such as pickups is actually just needed.

Recently, the China European Economic and Technological Cooperation Association's Autonomous Automobile Industry Branch and Autonomous Automobile Network jointly edited the 2021 version of the "China Pickup Automobile Industry Development Report".

The report shows that the customer base of my country's pickups in 2020 is mainly concentrated in engineering construction, wholesale retail, agricultural and sideline aquatic products, manufacturing, decoration, vehicle maintenance, transportation, mining, forest farm agriculture and accommodation and catering.

The largest customer group of pickups comes from the engineering and construction industry. The purchase of users in this industry accounts for 42%of the total annual sales; the second largest customer group comes from the wholesale and retail industry, accounting for 18%; the third largest customer group is agricultural agriculture. The operators of the aquatic products account for 14%. Such users are mainly small merchants and hawkers. The use scenarios mainly occur in the farmer's market in urban areas and suburbs.

There is no doubt that from the customer base, many of the use scenarios of pickup cards are mainly concentrated in the main urban area. In the past, how can the relevant needs meet in a city without letting go?

"The surrounding peers transported raw materials and other goods in the city, mainly van, and most of the gold cups and Wuling Hongguang." Lin Zhijing told China News Weekly.

Like Lin Zhijing, many catering practitioners or vendors in the retail industry, the main purpose of buying a noodle car is transportation. At this time, the "hindrance" seats in the back row of the van are often removed.

Gu Dasong said that what many people don't know is that the cargo of van is actually illegal.

"From the perspective of design, the van is mainly for passenger. If the seat is removed and puts the goods, it is equivalent to modification. If the vehicle brakes sharply during transportation, the goods will shake under inertia, which will affect the system, which will affect the system, which will affect the system. Move effects, causing hidden safety hazards. "Gu Dasong said.

However, in real life, the cargo phenomenon of van is actually common. Even on the same city freight platform, most of the vehicles used for moving are "modified" passenger vans.

Once the traffic police inspection is encountered, such modified vehicles will be investigated. For example, on December 22, 2021, the van across the Nanjing Traffic Management Department conducted an assault inspection. Near the transfer of Liucun, National Highway 205, in just one hour, more than 10 van van cars were investigated and punished.

Cheng Shidong believes that after the lifting of pickups, it will solve the problem of loading the passenger van illegal cargo to a certain extent.

Entering the city is just the first step

In the eyes of many industry insiders, allowing pickups to enter the city is only the first step. In the future, the right of trucks should have deeper considerations and changes.

According to Wang Yan's analysis, the loosening of pickups in major cities will promote the transformation of pickups from small models to popular models. It is expected to promote pickups to become one of the main models of urban logistics distribution.

In fact, due to concerns about traffic congestion, emission pollution, and unloading congestion, major cities have strict restrictions on trucks entering the city.

However, from Cheng Shidong's view, all truck restrictions may not be able to improve traffic congestion.

"Due to the traffic control of trucks, there are fewer traffic time for trucks during the day, but in fact many goods have strict requirements on time. Therefore The method solves, such as pulling goods with passenger cars such as Wuling Hongguang and Golden Cup. The amount of goods that can be pulled by a small truck may require a few van to transport, so that the road occupies more, and it is not safe. "Cheng Shidong said.

"Restricting trucks have always been the mainstream of road rights policies. But in recent years, we have gradually realized that cities must not only serve the lives of the people, but also take into account production. In fact, there are many demand for logistics and distribution in the city, such as catering, wholesale and retail. Except for the trunk logistics such as large trucks, it is not advisable to enter the city. It should be carried out in the suburban concentration area and gives more right to light trucks. "Gu Dasong said.

In addition to the "loosening" of pickups into the city, the parking problem of pickups and other light trucks has also become the focus of attention in the industry.

In Cheng Shidong's view, in terms of public parking spaces, light trucks should be given more space tilt and planned some public parking spaces for them.

"We went to Japan and Hong Kong in my country to investigate and found that they had a lot of parking spaces for trucks, which could reach up to 10%-15%of the total parking space. After we gradually let go of the restrictions on light trucks, related experiences are worthy of worthy of their experience worthy Dredit. "Cheng Shidong said.

But at present, parking spaces are generally tight in major cities. In this case, how to leave sufficient development space for trucks has become the key to discussing many people in the industry.

Gu Dasong believes that from the perspective of parking, it is promoted to buy a car, parking in place, and promoting the development of dynamic traffic through static traffic management.

Author: Zhao Yue ([email protected])

Edit: Sun Xiaobo

Operation editor: Wang Lin

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