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This tool shows how much Europe gains from cycling. It provides comprehensive evidence on the
different benefits in all relevant fields, and quantifies them at the level of the EU-28 wherever possible.
The results are striking: Already at current levels, cycling produces global benefits of 150 billion euros
per year. More than 90 billion euros of these are positive externalities for the environment, public
health and the mobility system. In comparison, a recent study by the European Commission estimated
the negative externalities, i.e. the costs for the environment, health and mobility, of motorised road
transport at 800 billion euros per year.
The benefits of cycling appear not only in specific, isolated fields like transport or environmental policy,
but in many other areas where the EU has competences as well, like industrial policy, employment,
health and social policy. This makes the case for an integrated EU Cycling Strategy that includes these
fields and considers cycling in all relevant policy areas and will therefore enable the whole EU to reap the
benefits of cycling.