GRIP

Infrastructure

What is running, not what has been rendered.

A line, a port, a power network, or a payments rail is infrastructure when someone can use it. A timetable is a claim.

Passenger train moving through a city at dusk

Property sits downstream of infrastructure, and the two are different assets. A flat near a future station depends on delivery and on who captures the benefit. The station, if it is financed as a project or a concession, is a different claim. GRIP treats them separately.

Country notes below are open for the places where the market or ecosystem research is already deep enough to say what the system actually is. They do not list projects and they do not quote costs.

The financial question, who pays and what kind of claim that creates, is an investment note: Infrastructure investment is a question of who pays.

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Read the city the line is supposed to serve.

Infrastructure that does not change a weekday commute has not yet changed the property.