Road transport

The road transport sector is strategically essential to social and economic development and ensures passenger and freight mobility across jurisdictions and countries. It makes an important contribution to economic growth and job creation. Road infrastructure investments and operations have strong impacts onother sectors of the economy.

Urban passenger road transport services and operations keep cities moving. By providing mobility services to all, urban passenger transport services constitute a basic service under public regulation. These services are an enabler of other rights and of access to other vital services. They are a powerful driver of equity, development, sustainability, growth, productivity and employment opportunities.

Key resources

Driving for change: Training Toolkit on HIV/AIDS for the road transport sector

Passengers on a commuter bus observe social distancing as a police officer checks their passes.

Urban transport

The line graphs show a time series of modelled global and regional employment estimates at the sectoral level. The ILO modelled estimates generally cover 189 countries, offering a comprehensive set of internationally comparable labour statistics. These include both reported data and imputed figures for countries with missing information. The imputations are generated using econometric models developed by the ILO.

For more detailed labour market indicators and country-level data, visit the Sectoral Employment Statistics page of the ILOSTAT database.

The line graphs show a time series of modelled global and regional employment estimates at the sectoral level. The ILO modelled estimates generally cover 189 countries, offering a comprehensive set of internationally comparable labour statistics. These include both reported data and imputed figures for countries with missing information. The imputations are generated using econometric models developed by the ILO.

For more detailed labour market indicators and country-level data, visit the Sectoral Employment Statistics page of the ILOSTAT database.