Jobs in green and healthy transport: Making the green shift

Land transport is an important sector in terms of job creation and economic development. It employs
over 60 million workers around the world, representing more than 2 per cent of global employment.
Total employment is even higher if one counts the indirect jobs that depend on value chains associated
with the transport sector.

At the same time, because of the resources it consumes and the pollution it causes, transport
also contributes to environmental degradation and to health problems. If global and local
environmental objectives are to be achieved while promoting the transport sector as a source of
decent work, it is essential that the pursuit of environmental sustainability should be at the heart
of policy development.

A macroeconomic multiregional input–output model has been used in this study to analyse the
employment implications of four “green transport” scenarios in the ECE region. Projections up
to 2030 obtained using a business-as-usual scenario were compared with projections from the
modelling of each of those four scenarios, which envisage an accelerated expansion of public
transport and the electrification of private passenger and freight transport. The specific scenarios
modelled were: