Interstate 80, the second-longest U.S.
Interstate highway, runs from
California to New Jersey
- Infrastructure is the framework of supporting system consisting of roads, airports, bridges, buildings, parks and other amenities for the comfort of mankind.
- Economically, infrastructure are the structural elements that allow for production of goods and services without themselves being part of the production process, e.g. roads allow the transport of raw materials and finished products.
- The word is a combination of “infra” and “structure”. The term came to prominence in the United States in the 1980s following the publication of America in Ruins (Choate and Walter, 1981), which initiated discussion of the nation’s “infrastructure crisis” caused by inadequate investment and poor maintenance of public works.
