Ethical Transport

The Ethical Transport project links three of the major development challenges of our time -- safer transport, carbon emissions reduction and decent work.

Millions of people around the world earn their livings by moving people and goods, but few of them enjoy secure employment or labour protection because most are in the informal economy or employed on precarious terms.

That affects us all. On the roads, for example, if a driver has incentives to go too fast or a vehicle is not properly maintained, it not only makes the roads less safe but also adds unnecessarily to carbon emissions.

With transport the fastest growing industrial cause of global warming and road crashes already killing more people than malaria, these are crucial issues.

So Ethical Transport is working to make passenger and freight transport worldwide safer, cleaner and fairer.

As well as working with the International Transport Workers Federation on Quality Public Transport, we are developing a programme of work to make freight road transport safer, cleaner and fairer to all.

For more information, please email admin@publicworld.org