Barranquilla: process for implementation of the taximeter - Barranquilla - Colombia

With the socialization of adjustments and the schedule of a new tenderthe Metropolitan Area of ​​Barranquilla (AMB) resumed the process for the implementation of the intelligent system in Individual Public Transportation (TPI), which includes the taximeter.

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In a meeting with businessmen, owners and union associations of taxi drivers, the director of the AMB, Libardo García, presented the changes and adjustments requested during the observation period.

Some adjustment requests related to the uncertainties derived from the effects of the pandemic were found to be pertinent

Currently, there are 17 companies authorized by the AMB to provide the service, which have 14,363 affiliated taxiswhich on average each perform 17 races per day.

According to the official, the recommendations received during the observation stage of the bidding process were taken into account, aimed at the selection of the technological operator that will guarantee the implementation of the SIT.

“Some adjustment requests related to the uncertainties derived from the effects of the pandemic on the shortage of electronic components required by the system were found to be pertinent,” García said.

He added that they also analyzed the racing demand mobilized by this mode of individual transportation, the instability of the exchange rate, among others, which had a direct impact on the financial model of the structuring.

Due to the above, he recalled that it was necessary to “stop along the way” to adjust and make the implementation of the SIT viable and sustainable.

The settings that are socializing

The system maintains elements such as a taximeter (AVL) that guarantees the collection of a fair rate

In this sense, he indicated that among the adjustments, the vision of strengthening aspects such as security, quality of service and restore citizen confidence in legal transport.

“The system maintains elements such as a taximeter (AVL) that guarantees the collection of a fair rate, connected to an electronic screen that allows viewing the service, the identity of the driver and a monitoring system that allows the authority to validate compliance with the regulations. service provision conditions”, stated the director of the AMB.

He estimated that the adjustments made to the new SIT-TPI bidding process generate positive impacts for its different actors, mitigating the financing riskincluding technological renovation and a competitive operational rate for the sector.

The foregoing, as he pointed out, reduces the sustainability costs of the project by 18.2 percent, for which he thanked the commitment and willingness of all the actors involved in the project.

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The financing of the system

He reiterated that the financing of the SIT will result from the selection of a technological operator that is in charge of making the investments required to implement the solution.

These expenses will be remunerated over time through a quality factor of 450 pesos per race, avoiding that the on-board kit devices and operating costs represent a burden for owners and drivers, according to the socialization.

The union expressed the need to advance in its implementation and harmonize its start-up with greater controls on the illegality that affects the individual public transport sector.

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China, Iran Begin Implementation of Sweeping Strategic Agreement

BEIJING — 

China said Saturday it would begin implementing a strategic agreement with Iran, strengthening economic and political cooperation between the two countries as Beijing blasted Washington’s sanctions on Tehran.

China and Iran signed the agreement last year after years of talks, with the wide-ranging partnership set to span areas including energy, security, infrastructure and communications.

Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi and Iranian counterpart Hossein Amir-Abdollahian announced the start of the partnership’s implementation at a meeting in east China’s Wuxi on Friday, Beijing’s foreign ministry said in a statement.

Few details of the secretive deal have been published, but the New York Times reported in 2020 that it would secure a regular supply of oil for China, citing a draft of the agreement leaked to the paper.

China is Iran’s leading trade partner and was one of the biggest buyers of the country’s oil before then-US president Donald Trump reimposed sweeping unilateral sanctions in 2018.

China has officially stopped importing oil from Iran, but analysts say Iranian crude is continuing to enter the country disguised as imports from other countries.

Wang told his Iranian counterpart Friday that China would continue to “oppose illegal unilateral sanctions against Iran,” the foreign ministry said.

Beijing has long sought to boost ties with Tehran, with Chinese president Xi Jinping describing Iran as “China’s major partner in the Middle East” on a rare visit to the country in 2016.

Wang and Amir-Abdollahian’s meeting comes as talks continue in Vienna over a potential deal to halt Tehran’s development of nuclear weapons.

A 2015 deal — agreed by Iran, the US, China, Russia, Britain, France and Germany — offered Tehran sanctions relief in exchange for curbs on its nuclear program.

But the US withdrew from the agreement in 2018, reimposing biting sanctions and prompting Tehran to begin rolling back on its commitments.

Talk to salvage the nuclear deal began in late November, after being suspended when Iran elected a new ultraconservative government in June.

Wang told his Iranian counterpart on Friday that China believes the United States is to blame for the current state of the deal, the foreign ministry said in its statement.