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7 Types of Infrastructure: What Is An Infrastructure Project?

An infrastructure project focuses on improving facilities and systems like transportation, communications, and electricity. There are 7 main types of infrastructure: 1) Aviation like airports and air traffic control, 2) Telecommunications including phone lines, internet, and cell towers, 3) Bridges such as beam, cable, and arch bridges, 4) Power and energy from traditional plants and modern renewable sources, 5) Railways including train tracks, stations, and freight and passenger lines, 6) Roadways such as highways, roads, and public transit, and 7) Water infrastructure to ensure a constant clean supply through main lines, wells, and treatment plants.

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7 Types of Infrastructure: What Is An Infrastructure Project?

An infrastructure project focuses on improving facilities and systems like transportation, communications, and electricity. There are 7 main types of infrastructure: 1) Aviation like airports and air traffic control, 2) Telecommunications including phone lines, internet, and cell towers, 3) Bridges such as beam, cable, and arch bridges, 4) Power and energy from traditional plants and modern renewable sources, 5) Railways including train tracks, stations, and freight and passenger lines, 6) Roadways such as highways, roads, and public transit, and 7) Water infrastructure to ensure a constant clean supply through main lines, wells, and treatment plants.

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7 Types of Infrastructure

What is an infrastructure project?


An infrastructure project is a proposed plan that focuses on the improvement and
upkeep of services, facilities and systems already in place throughout a country.
Examples include improvements to communications equipment, transportation
channels and electrical systems. Both private and public companies finance the
projects to ensure a country operates efficiently and safely. This allows citizens to
have electricity, the ability to communicate using technology and easy ways of
getting from one place to another. Two main categories of infrastructure are hard
and soft infrastructure. Soft infrastructures are the institutions that make up an
economy, like healthcare systems, law enforcement, financial institutions and
educational systems. Hard infrastructures are the physical systems that help run a
region or nation such as roads, bridges and telecommunications.
1. Aviation
Flying is a form of travel that allows people to cross long distances in a much
shorter time than driving or taking a train. One important current aviation
infrastructure project includes building extensions to pre-existing airports to
increase the overall percentage of flights landing on time. Another in-demand
project is maintaining the safety of current ground facilities by repaving airfields.
Examples of aviation infrastructure include:
 Airports
 Air traffic control
 Heliports
 Ground facilities
2. Telecommunications
Technology is always expanding, and that leaves a constant need for
telecommunications infrastructure projects, such as progressing from 4G to 5G
mobile networks. Examples of telecommunications infrastructure include:
 Telephone wires and cables
 Internet
 Satellites
 Mobile network towers
 Radio broadcasting systems
3. Bridges
The maintenance of large-scale, high-volume bridges is necessary for many
people's daily transit. Examples of bridge infrastructure include:
 Beam bridges
 Cable bridges
 Arch bridges
4. Power and energy
Traditional energy infrastructures include coal, gas and nuclear plants, which help
produce electricity for the entire country. Maintenance crews regularly perform
repairs and maintenance on the plants to ensure they properly and efficiently
transmit power to the correct locations. Modern infrastructure projects create
power and store energy without the use of fossil fuels, such as solar-, wind- and
geothermal-powered infrastructures.
A few examples of both traditional and renewable energy infrastructures used
today are:
 Electric power grid networks
 Nuclear plants
 Gas pipelines
 Fossil fuel-based power production such as gas and coal plants
 Renewable energy like hydro-electric power, biofuels and solar power
5. Railways
In addition to train tracks, railroad infrastructure includes all buildings, equipment
and land that support the railways. This also includes management, transport of
materials and maintenance of rail lines and all of their facilities. Divided into two
categories, the rail network consists of freight and passenger. For both categories,
railroad infrastructure projects involve the maintenance and upkeep of the current
railways, but also include making efforts to create new rail line extensions and
adding signage near railways.
Examples of railway infrastructures include:
 Railway lines
 Trains
 Tunnels
 Railroad bridges
 Train stations
6. Roadways
Roadway infrastructure includes drivable locations such as highways, roads and
streets. Minor roadway projects are tasks such as creating new traffic lights,
signage, ramps and traffic lanes. Larger roadway projects consist of building new
roads and repairing existing roads. Street and highway reconstruction and
resurfacing are essential to keeping a road in drivable condition. Many states rely
on the income from toll roads to fund the construction.
Some examples of roadway infrastructures include:
 Roads
 Bridges
 Tunnels
 Bus transit
7. Water
The constant supply of clean and filtered water to people across a country is an
important infrastructure to maintain. Water infrastructure projects differ depending
on location because of environmental factors. For example, in a location that
typically has droughts, water infrastructure projects ensure the continuation of a
steady water supply and reduce the number of leaks by monitoring and repairing
the water facilities in use. Most projects include updating the current distribution of
water and finding effective ways to transport water from one location to another.
Examples of water infrastructure include:
 Main water lines
 Wells
 Pumping stations
 Treatment plants

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