This paper aims to map the social risks of the environmental transition in the transportation sector. Existing literature on the risks related to the environmental transition focuses more on economic risks and damages, while social risks are often overlooked. We attempt to address this gap by providing a cross-cutting literature review of the transport sector, mapping the social risks stemming from the environmental transition: direct risks linked to climate change and indirect risks from the policies aimed at mitigating its impacts. We identify the social risks to answer three questions that are still relatively unexplored: what the social risks are, who these risks affect, and the policies put in place to minimise these social risks.