ABSTRACT
The International Labor Organization estimates that a whopping 1.6 billion people are at risk of losing their livelihoods. Many of them are informal workers who do not have access to unemployment benefits or any other kind of social safety nets. Poverty would skyrocket, middle classes would shrink, and tax revenue would plummet. Transport will be a key piece of the equation: people must find ways to connect people to jobs, and to connect them as safely and sustainably as possible. Clearly, decisionmakers at all levels must work toward a green recovery model that will help address the ongoing health, economic, and climate emergencies simultaneously. Transport is also key for community resilience, understood as the “measure of the sustained ability of a community to utilize available to respond, withstand, and recover from adverse situations,” Sustainable transport is more resilient because it embeds redundancy: many buses provide service, bicycles and pedestrians can circumvent many obstacles.
