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Transport connects people, places and cities. Investment in transport infrastructure therefore helps bridging economic and social divides. It promotes economic growth and catching up of regions by providing access to jobs for workers and markets for firms. This report summarises evidence on the benefits of transport investment for economic growth and job creation and thereby for catching up in OECD regions.

Infrastructure (Economics) --- Transportation

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"Open Access journal Space: Science & Technology, published in association with BIT, promotes the interplay of science and technology for the benefit of all application domains of space activities."

space --- space science --- space engineering --- space technology --- space infrastructure

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"In the long-shadow of September 11, 2001, infrastructures have undergone a significant reorganization. Letters, Power Lines, and Other Dangerous Things examines how new fears and worries over security have transformed the material and social outlines of infrastructure. The book follows three infrastructures-the postal system, freight rail, and the electric power system-and documents the subtle and explicit changes that have remade these systems. The book places the rise of "critical infrastructure protection"-a buzzword, a governing logic, and a multi-billion dollar funding priority-within a larger historical framework. Drawing from thousands of pages of regulatory filings, court documents, and other governmental documents, the book pieces together a larger story about risk and infrastructure. It identifies the political origins of infrastructure vulnerability-demonstrating how decades of political and economic restructuring ("deregulation") created system that were both politically unaccountable and vulnerable to systemic failure; and it examines how a cross-section of actors-including workers, civic groups, city councils, bureaucrats, and others-attempted to leverage new fears about infrastructure danger into reinvigorated systems of public accountability. Put another way, it examines the social and technical processes that made infrastructure dangerous; and then follows the ways in which these "dangerous things" were made safe and secure. The book offers a reminder that infrastructures always order they organize different publics, uses, ideas about what and who a system is for, into a tentative hierarchy. And security presents an opportunity to revisit and in some case remake these orders. The book provides a window into how infrastructures are made and remade sometimes in surprising and contradictory ways"--

Infrastructure (Economics) --- Security measures. --- Capital, Social (Economics) --- Economic infrastructure --- Social capital (Economics) --- Social infrastructure --- Social overhead capital --- Economic development --- Human settlements --- Public goods --- Public works --- Capital --- Infrastructure --- security --- vulnerability --- risk --- politics --- risk assessment --- 911 --- deregulation --- cybersecurity --- power lines --- electric grid --- USPS --- mail --- anthrax --- transportation networks --- homeland security --- critical infrastructure --- TSA --- regulation --- detection --- securitization --- Security measures --- SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General --- SOCIAL SCIENCES/Political Science/General

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This Methodological Guide is the result of the participatory processes carried out from the university extension with the communities of the Canton of Naranjo. It seeks to guide in a pedagogical way, the various processes that the communities must develop within the groups, which lead the community processes in the field of rural roads.

Rural communities --- Rural planning --- Transport infrastructure --- Community participation --- Resource management --- Guides --- Legislation --- Roads --- Local government

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"Infrastructural Brutalism explores the necropolitics of infrastructure through the lens of artistic media: "drowned town" literature, road movies, energy landscape photography, and "death train" narratives. How does American "drowned town" literature, from Mud on the Stars to Sugaree Rising, contribute to the social erasure of Indigeneity? How does road movie scholarship ignore the materiality of the road in favor of modes of travel? How is agency depicted in the energy landscape photography of oil pipelines and coal-powered reactors? How do the novels and films about death trains, from the historical trains of African colonization and the Holocaust to fictional trains such as Snowpiercer and Train to Busan, connect infrastructure with necropower? While most examples are from North American literature, film, and photography, the book also discusses media from around the world in terms of the necropolitical valences of infrastructure.

Landscapes in art. --- Landscapes --- Infrastructure (Economics) --- Arts and society. --- Symbolic aspects. --- Arts --- Arts and sociology --- Society and the arts --- Sociology and the arts --- Capital, Social (Economics) --- Economic infrastructure --- Social capital (Economics) --- Social infrastructure --- Social overhead capital --- Economic development --- Human settlements --- Public goods --- Public works --- Capital --- Symbolic aspects of landscape --- Symbolism --- Landscape in art --- Social aspects --- infrastructure --- brutalism --- necropolitics --- brisantic politics --- concrete --- drowned town narratives --- Snowpiercer --- The Road --- Cormac McCarthy --- modernism --- megastructures