Le nuove frontiere del servizio pubblico locale: la vicenda UBER tra regolazione, giurisprudenza e ruolo delle autonomie

Within the new trends of today’s administrative law, great interest has been raised by the subject of technology services for mobility (STM), and particularly by the UberPop issue; this system can be described as a passenger transport service, carried out by non-professional drivers, which aims to the matching between supply and demand by the use of a digital operating system and isn’t subject to the public rules generally applied to other transport services such as taxis. Many different institutions (both Authorities and judges) have recently expressed their point of view on UberPop, particularly focusing on its nature, on its compliance to the law and most of all on pointing out the most suitable regulation for it; moreover, also the European Court of Justice has been lately involved in the matter. What seems to emerge from these facts is the urgent necessity, in this subject, of a new regulation, able to overcome its complexities and to enhance its advantages in terms of smart technologies’ development and competition promoting.