The Entity Responsibilities of Highway Emergency Management and the Establishment of “Tri-combination†Mechanism

Abstract

In recent years, highway emergencies occur frequently in China. These emergencies make the public’s confidence in the government suffer from trials and tribulations, while giving huge economic losses to the society. Compared with western countries, one important season for lowering highway emergency management capacity in China should be attributed to the multicultural operating entities and multi-agent management mechanism, resulting in responsibility dislocation or deficiency, sluggish actions and inefficiency. Therefore, it is extremely important to clarify the entities of highway emergency management. First of all, the paper elaborates the necessity of multiple investors on the highway, figures out different responsibilities of multiple agents from the double perspective of sociology and economics and finally proposes the “tri-combination †mechanism, namely “combination†of uniform highway emergency management organizations; “linkage†of effective social mobilization mechanism; and “joint service†of unifying social force.