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Introduction to Infrastructure
Lecture 01
Infrastructure Planning and Management
Semester V (Fall 2024)
CRP Dept. LCWU
Course Instructor: Amna Shoaib
What is Infrastructure?
▪ Infrastructure is basic physical and organizational
structure needed for the operation of a society or
enterprise, or the services and facilities necessary
for an economy to function.
▪ It can be generally defined as the set of
interconnected structural elements that provide
framework supporting an entire structure of
development. It is an important term for judging a
country or region’s development.
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What is Infrastructure?
▪ The term typically refer to the technical structures that
support a society , such as roads, bridges, water supply,
sewers, electrical grids, telecommunications and waste
management system.
▪ It can be technically defined as “the physical components of
interrelated systems providing commodities and services
essential to enable, sustain, or enhance societal living
conditions.”
Infrastructure Planning and Management CRP Dept. LCWU
Semester V (Fall 2024) Course Instructor: Amna Shoaib
What is Infrastructure?
▪ Viewed functionally, infrastructure facilitates the production
of goods, and services, and also the distribution of finished
products to markets, as well as basic social services such as
schools and hospitals.
o For example, roads enable the transport of raw materials to a
factory
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What is Infrastructure?
▪ This infrastructure is the basic requirement of economic
development. It does not directly produce goods and
services but facilitates production in primary, secondary
and tertiary economic activities by creating external
economies.
▪ Infrastructure is common in government institutions since
this is essential for the economy to properly and effectively
function. Without the infrastructure it is relatively hard to
assess if the projects or the government projects will work
or not.
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Semester V (Fall 2024) Course Instructor: Amna Shoaib
Field of Study
▪ Mostly infrastructure is designed by engineers, urbanists or
architects. Generally road and rail transport networks as
well as water and waste management infrastructure are
designed by civil engineers, electrical power and lighting
networks are designed by power engineers and electrical
engineers, and telecommunication, computing and
monitoring networks are designed by system engineers.
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Field of Study
▪ In case of urban infrastructure, the general layout of roads,
sidewalks and public places may sometimes be designed by
urban planners or architects, although detailed design will
still be performed by civil engineers.
▪ If a building is required, it is designed by an architects, and
if an industrial or processing plant is required , it may be
designed by industrial engineer or a process engineers.
Infrastructure Planning and Management CRP Dept. LCWU
Semester V (Fall 2024) Course Instructor: Amna Shoaib
Attributes of Infrastructure
Some of these characteristics that are popularly associated with
infrastructure are
▪ Infrastructure facilities are generally available to large group of
people.
▪ Infrastructure helps deliver essential services for the functioning
of an organization or society.
▪ Infrastructure helps achieve economic and social objectives and
is an important term for judging a country or region’s
development.
▪ Infrastructure is the base upon which society and its activities
exists.
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Semester V (Fall 2024) Course Instructor: Amna Shoaib
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Role of Infrastructure in Development
▪ Infrastructure is instrumental in promoting economic
growth; the more physical infrastructure a country has, the
greater the economic stability and vice versa.
▪ Infrastructure also plays a role in alleviating poverty.
Infrastructure Planning and Management CRP Dept. LCWU
Semester V (Fall 2024) Course Instructor: Amna Shoaib
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Importance of Infrastructure
▪ The importance of infrastructure plays in [people’s
everyday lives is often taken for granted though it is one of
the biggest issues that governments across the globe need
to address in their public policies.
▪ Infrastructure investment in the development of
communications, IT, roads, schools, ports, and hospitals is
important to both economic development and quality of life.
Failure to invest means a failure to sustain and develop our
social and economic well being.
Infrastructure Planning and Management CRP Dept. LCWU
Semester V (Fall 2024) Course Instructor: Amna Shoaib
Importance of Infrastructure
▪ Poor infrastructure impedes a nation’s economic growth and
international competitiveness. (The World Bank 2006).
▪ Infrastructure has a bearing on a country’s attractiveness
to foreign investors and on its ability to compete with other
jurisdictions.
▪ It includes the basic services and facilities required for
businesses to compete and grow. Business require
infrastructure; therefore, business growth can be limited by
poor infrastructure development.
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Importance of Infrastructure
▪ Infrastructure is a key of a country’s position on a global
stage; it is the second pillar that is assessed by World
Economic Forum when determining the competitiveness of
a nation (institutions, being the first).
▪ Surveys by The World Bank reveal investors citing reliable
infrastructure as an important consideration in their
investment decisions of quality of life, illness and death
(Willoughby 2004).
Infrastructure Planning and Management CRP Dept. LCWU
Semester V (Fall 2024) Course Instructor: Amna Shoaib
Infrastructure Related Issues
▪ Infrastructure in developing countries is old, unreliable,
inefficient, in need of replacement and often not available.
▪ Large portion of urban and rural populations in developing
countries have inadequate access to water and sanitation.
▪ Power supply is non-existent or unreliable and people are
faced with frequent power cuts.
▪ Quality of road infrastructure is often bad, leading to long
travel times and increased vehicle maintenance costs.
Width of roads is also often a constraining factor leading to
traffic jams and blocks
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