Ottawa, July 10, 2017—The Honourable Marc Garneau, Minister of Transport—on behalf of the Honourable Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development—along with Hélène David, Quebec Minister of Higher Education, and Kathleen Weil, Quebec Minister of Immigration, Diversity and Inclusiveness, will be at Concordia University to announce post-secondary infrastructure funding.
When it comes to infrastructure, knowing what to spend money on isn’t the hard issue. How to pay for it is.
The U.S. government has a deferred maintenance backlog that totals billions of dollars.
Almost no one disputes the need for America to repair and expand its physical infrastructure. But there’s a right way to do it, and there’s a wrong way.
Fast and efficient roads, rails, and airports will keep us moving quickly, but only if we continue to invest in them.
The U.S. government has a unique opportunity to take decisive action on aging and obsolete infrastructure to provide a firmer foundation for the future. But now is the time to act.
Much of US infrastructure, from highways to waste treatment facilities and energy grids, has approached the end of its useful life and is in desperate need of u
Public investment in infrastructure attracts private investment and fuels economic growth, which in turn generates extra public revenue to spend on more and better infrastructure.
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Pro-poor public-private partnerships in infrastructure have clear advantages to support poverty alleviation.
Rebuildling our bridges, roads and waterways is perhaps the best economic investment we can make.
Property and infrastructure are complementary. No one likes congestion, whether you are trying to get to work or move freight.
Yes – but only if the focus is on quality and impact, and not on the quantity and volume of investment.
Infrastructure assets such as roads, power networks, hospitals and schools are often backed by long-term revenue streams from local or central government.
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The question isn't the economic or financial desirability of such a program, but its political feasibility.
Why it may take public-private partnerships to keep our bridges from crumbling.
The U.S. should develop a long-term infrastructure strategy that includes investment in roads, bridges, transit and rail and the establishment of a national infrastructure bank to prevent falling further behind economic competitors, according to a report from Building America's Future. Among its recommendations are to "[d]evelop a long-term national infrastructure strategy that makes choices based on economics, not politics."
Different kinds of infrastructure produce different kinds of benefits.
Vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) technology is a communication framework that enables several vehicles to share information with a variety of devices supporting the highway system of a particular country. These devices consist of RFID readers, signage, cameras, lane makers, streetlights...
And how exactly does it address the biggest challenges facing this economy?