Public infrastructure

Public infrastructure is infrastructure owned or available for use by the public (represented by the government). It is distinguishable from generic or private infrastructure in terms of policy, financing, purpose, etc.

Public infrastructure
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Assets and facilities
Airports Bridges Broadband Canals Coastal management Critical infrastructure Dams Electricity Energy Hazardous waste Hospitals Irrigation schemes Levees Lighthouses Parks Pipeline transport Ports Mass transit Public housing State schools Public spaces Rail Roads Sewage Sluices Solid waste Telecommunication Utilities Water supply Weirs Wastewater
Concepts
Asset management Appropriation Lindahl tax Build–operate–transfer Design–bid–build Design–build Earmark Fixed cost Engineering contracts Externality Government debt Life-cycle assessment Maintenance Monopoly Property tax Public–private partnership Public capital Public finance Public good Public sector Renovation Replacement (upgrade) Spillover Supply chain Taxation
Issues and ideas
Air traffic control Brownfield Carbon footprint Containerization Congestion pricing Ecotax Ethanol fuel Fuel tax Groundwater High-speed rail Hybrid vehicles Land-use planning Mobile data terminal Pork barrel Rapid bus transit Recycling Renewables Reverse osmosis Smart grid Smart growth Stormwater Urban sprawl Traffic congestion Transit-oriented development Vehicle efficiency Waste-to-energy Weatherization Wireless technology
Fields of study
Architecture Chemical engineering Civil Electrical Mechanical engineering Public economics Public policy Urban planning
Examples Akashi Kaikyō Bridge Trans-Alaska pipeline Autobahn Brazilian energy independence Brooklyn Bridge Channel Tunnel Chicago wastewater China's high-speed rail Curtiba rapid bus transit Danish wind-power British offshore wind-power Nuclear power in France Solar power in Germany Hoover Dam Hong Kong Int'l Airport Intercity-Express Interstate highways Jamnagar Refinery Kansai Int'l Airport Panama Canal Port of Shanghai San Francisco Bay Bridge Three Gorges Dam Shinkansen Spanish high-speed rail French TGV rail Spanish autovias and autopistas Transcontinental Railroad Power transmission in the USA
Category Engineering portal

Public infrastructure is a general term often qualified specifically as:

• Transport infrastructure - vehicles, road, rail, cable and financing of transport
  • Aviation infrastructure - air traffic control technology in aviation
  • Rail transport - trackage, signals, electrification of rails
  • Road transport - roads, bridges, tunnels
• Critical infrastructure - assets required to sustain human life
• Energy infrastructure - transmission and storage of fossil fuels and renewable sources
• Hazardous waste - characteristics, disposal, handling of hazardous waste
• Information and communication infrastructure - systems of information storage and distribution
• Public capital - government-owned assets
• Public works - municipal infrastructure, maintenance functions and agencies
• Solid waste - generation, collection, management of trash/garbage
• Sustainable urban infrastructure - technology, architecture, policy for sustainable living
• Water infrastructure - the distribution and maintenance of water supply
• Wastewater infrastructure - disposal and treatment of wastewater
• Infrastructure
• Infrastructure-based development