UN Organisations Recognise Potential Of Cycling In High-Level Report

BRUSSELS, Belgium – Up to 435,000 additional jobs might be created if 56 major cities had the same cycling modal share as Copenhagen. This is evidenced by a publication from the United Nations Environment Programme, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE).

 

The team of researchers showed that cycling creates jobs in areas as diverse as design and manufacture, wholesale, retail and repair, tourism, and services (messengers and bike rental). They based their estimates on data collected from 37 cities using a standardised approach in the pan-European region.

 

More cycling creates new types of jobs

Public authorities play a major role in creating green jobs related to cycling

Policy recommendations include a range of fields that European Cyclists’ Federation (ECF) is actively working on: the integration of cycling into broader urban transport systems, monitoring cycling activity to inform future decision-making, effectively collecting and using information on the employment benefits of cycling, understanding the contribution of cycling to tourism and positioning cycling as a means of achieving multiple sustainable development goals (SDGs).

The study by the three world bodies also states that further research into the relationship between cycling jobs and modal share would greatly be facilitated by better and more consistent data collection.

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