The Government of Uzbekistan adopted a resolution “On measures on ordering activity of taxies” from 18 May 2011, which approved a regulation on single identifying signs for taxies and requirements on organization of their activities.

From 1 January 2012, taxies in yellow colour should run in all regions of Uzbekistan and “ivory” colour for Tashkent city. Taxies should have special identifying signs and meet all design requirements.

So, taxies should have TAXI mark with orange color lamp, installed on the roof of the car, “T” letter in front doors with the name of the company.

Internal design of taxies also changed significantly. There should be a board with the car number, information about owner and driver, cost of transportation for 1 km and other information. The cars should be equipped with taxi meters, radio communication equipment, POS-terminals.

Jamalkhadjaev said in the result of adopted measures, some 15,000 taxies were equipped in line with the requirement. They were also provided with special state registration number plates. About 240 taxies parking sights were constructed and launched.

He praised works, conducted in Samarkand region. Currently, there are 2,500 taxies, which meet requirements of legislation.

Number of equipped taxies in Tashkent city makes up 2,110 units, in Navoi region – 1,630 units, Surkhandarya region – 1,390 units and Ferghana region – 1,030 units. Largest number of taxi parking sights were constructed in Tashkent (50 units), Kashkadarya region (26), Tashkent region (24) and Andijan region (20).