Public infrastructure

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Public infrastructure
Assets
and
facilities
Airports • Bridges • Broadband • Canals • Critical infrastructure • Dams • Electricity generation • Energy development • Hazardous waste • Hospitals • Levees • Lighthouses • Municipal solid waste • Parks • Ports • Public housing • Public spaces • Public transport • Public utilities • Public works • Rail transport • Roads • Sewage • State schools • Telecommunications • Wastewater treatment • Water supply network • Wind power
Concepts Appropriation • Infrastructure asset management • Build-operate-transfer • Design-build • Earmark • Engineering contracts • Externality • Fixed cost • Government debt • Infrastructure bond • Life-cycle assessment • Lindahl tax • Maintenance, repair, and operations • Natural monopoly • Property tax • Public capital • Public finance • Public good • Public sector • Public-private partnership • Renovation • Spillover • Supply chain • Taxation • Upgrade
Issues
and
ideas
Air traffic control • Brownfield land • Bus rapid transit • Carbon footprint • Congestion pricing • Containerization • Ethanol fuel • Fuel efficiency • Fuel tax • Groundwater • High-speed rail • Hybrid vehicles • Land-use planning • Mobile data terminal • Pork barrel • Recycling • Renewable resources • Reverse osmosis • Smart grid • Smart growth • Stormwater • Sustainable urban infrastructure • Traffic congestion • Transit-oriented development • Urban sprawl • Waste-to-energy • Weatherization • Wireless
Fields
of study
Architecture • Civil engineering • Electrical engineering • Mechanical engineering • Public economics • Public policy • Urban planning
Examples Akashi Kaikyō Bridge • Autobahn • Brooklyn Bridge • Bus rapid transit systems • Channel Tunnel • Controlled-access highway systems • Electric power transmission • High-speed trains • Hong Kong International Airport • Hoover Dam • Humber Bridge • Kansai International Airport • Millau Viaduct • Nuclear power • Offshore wind farms • Panama Canal • Port of Shanghai • San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge • Suez Canal • Solar power • Three Gorges Dam • Trans-Alaska pipeline • Transcontinental railroads
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