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10.5.3 The Study examined several policy options for transport demand management andmade recommendations on the following:(1) Taxi controls(2) Minibus quotas(3) Tunnel tolls(4) Parking controls(5) Private car controls(6) Goods vehicle controls(7) Area pricingTaxi Controls10.5.4 in order to control the future growth in taxi travel the Study endorses recent policydecisions to maintain current quotas on new taxi licenses at not more than 300 peryear, which will need to be reviewed as necessary, and to restore an appropriatedifferential between taxi and other public transport fares. Fare levels should continueto be adjusted to ensure that the demand for taxi services is in balance with thelimited supply of taxis imposed by quotas.Minibus Quotas10.5.5 The number of public minibuses has been kept constant since 1976 at 4350.Controls are judged to be necessary because of the preference of drivers to operateon the main public transport corridors which can be more efficiently served by largercapacity franchised buses. Much effort has gone into converting the red public lightbuses into green minibuses operating feeder services to areas of low traffic volumeor difficult topography which are unsuited to larger vehicles, it is recommended thatthis policy be continued and current limits on the number of public minibuses bemaintained.Tunnel Tolls10.5.6 Government does not have complete flexibility in setting tunnel tolls due to legalarrangements with present and future tunnel operators but in so far as tolls can becontrolled, the objectives should be as follows:(1) To limit demand for the tunnel to the capacity of the facility in order to preventqueueing traffic from congesting the surrounding road system and interferingwith other traffic.(2) To balance traffic flows among the available alternative routes.Parking Controls10.5.7 It is recommended that the main elements of the current policy should continue:(1) To control the number of parking places in private car parks by planningspecifications.(2) To control demand for parking at public car parking places to maintain a 15%availability rate.10.5.8 The construction of new public car parks should be determined by demand and alsoby the capacity of the road system to absorb the additional traffic. For the latter thecriteria should be wider than just local traffic conditions and should consider totalvolumes of traffic entering the business district in which the planned car park islocated.199