Editing Infrastructure (section)

==Applications==

===Engineering and construction===
Engineers generally limit the term "infrastructure" to describe [[fixed assets]] that are in the form of a large network; in other words, [[hard infrastructure]].{{citation needed|date=March 2017}} Efforts to devise more generic definitions of infrastructures have typically referred to the network aspects of most of the structures, and to the accumulated value of investments in the networks as assets.{{citation needed|date=March 2017}} One such definition from 1998 defined infrastructure as the network of assets "where the system as a whole is intended to be maintained indefinitely at a specified standard of service by the continuing replacement and refurbishment of its components".<ref>Association of Local Government Engineers New Zealand: "Infrastructure Asset Management Manual", June 1998. Edition 1.1</ref>

===Civil defense and economic development===
{{see also|Civil defense by country}}
[[Civil defense]] planners and [[Development economics|developmental economists]] generally refer to both hard and soft infrastructure, including [[public services]] such as schools and [[hospitals]], [[emergency services]] such as police and fire fighting, and basic services in the [[economic sector]]. The notion of [[infrastructure-based development]] combining long-term infrastructure investments by government agencies at central and regional levels with [[public private partnership]]s has proven popular among economists in Asia (notably Singapore and China), mainland Europe, and Latin America.

===Military===
Military infrastructure is the buildings and permanent installations necessary for the support of military forces, whether they are stationed in bases, being deployed or engaged in operations. Examples include barracks, headquarters, airfields, communications facilities, stores of military equipment, port installations, and maintenance stations.<ref>D.O.D. Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms, 2001 (rev. 2005)</ref>

===Communications===
Communications infrastructure is the informal and formal channels of communication, political and [[social network]]s, or beliefs held by members of particular groups, as well as information technology, software development tools. Still underlying these more conceptual uses is the idea that infrastructure provides organizing structure and support for the system or organization it serves, whether it is a city, a nation, a corporation, or a collection of people with common interests. Examples include [[IT infrastructure]], research infrastructure, terrorist infrastructure, employment infrastructure, and tourism infrastructure.{{citation needed|date=March 2017}}