The Netherlands proudly calls itself the ¡°unrivalled number one bicycling nation¡± in the world and the adjective isn¡¯t an exaggeration as the country has more bicycles than people and these bicycle account for almost half of all journey between home and the work in the country¡¯s capital alone.
Reuters
Apart from having separate cycling paths, the country also provides an additional incentive of tax credits for Dutch people to get on bikes. Riding bicycle could get a Dutch USD 0.22 straight into his pay packet and it¡¯s tax-free.
The Netherlands is currently the only country giving monetary incentives to people peddling themselves to work and not using fossil fuel.
UK has another model to attract people to cycling as it operates on a lease-to-own model allowing employees to get bicycle on discount through their employer. The employers buy the cycle and lease it to the employees for usually 12 months. The set amount gets deducted every month from employee¡¯s remuneration which also helps in saving tax.
reuters
The Britons who use their cycles for business purposes get mileage allowance around $0.26 per mile. Belgium also provides a cash incentive to people with payment of $0.26 per kilometre to cyclists.?
Luxembourg provides employees with an advantage of $340 as a tax rebate to be used to buy a bicycle.
(With the input from?World Economic Forum report)