Study of expressway public policies based on basic attributes

In order to make expressway public policies suit expressway development laws, the principles of highway economics and welfare economics were applied, the connotations of expressway public policies were analyzed, the natural monopoly attribute, common product attribute and external attribute of expressway were studied aimed to service perspective, some public policies of expressway were put forward according to its three kinds of basic attributes. Aimed at the natural monopoly attribute, the policy is to break blockaded market, rationally lead into competitive system, reinforce stimulation and restraint system, so that the effective supervision and management of expressway are carried out. Aimed at the common product attribute, the policy is to realize expressway privatization with inner restraint system for easing the deficiency of expressway construction fund. Aimed at the external attribute, the policy is to optimize expressway resource collocation by tax and the integration planning of expressway construction and land utilization. The policies can improve expressway public policies scientifically and objectively, and promote the rapid and stable development expressway construction and operation in China.