What is Sustainable Infrastructure?

Sustainable infrastructure is the infrastructure that is designed, constructed, and maintained with socio-economic and environmental considerations and that can perpetuate and enhance the environment. The objective of sustainable infrastructure development is to develop methods and solutions for resilient and sustainable infrastructure and facilities.

“Earth observation has great potential for sustainable infrastructure development. EOSI benefits about 85% of infrastructure influenced SDGs and 61% of all 169 SDG targets, but Earth observation is only implemented in 15% of infrastructure influenced SDG targets, and 70% of infrastructure influenced targets that can be directly or indirectly derived from Earth observation data have not been included in current SDG indicators.”

Song Y., et al. “Earth Observation for Sustainable Infrastructure: A Review”. Remote Sensing. 2021; 13(8):1528. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13081528

Factors

Performance

Assessing block-level sustainable transport infrastructure development using a spatial trade-off relation (STOR) model

Developing sustainable road infrastructure performance indicators using a model-driven fuzzy spatial multi-criteria decision making (MFSD) method

Identifying multi-scale road infrastructure performance using a spatial heterogeneity-based segmentation (SHS) model

Analyzing temporally varied factors influencing transport infrastructure performance using hybrid nonlinear and machine learning methods

Impacts

Identifying spatial disparities in trade-offs between economic and environmental impacts of road infrastructure on continental level

Assessing spatial population accessibility to public facilities using a nationwide travel time-based modified kernel density two-step floating catchment area (MKD2SFCA) model

Assessing contributions of Earth observation for sustainable infrastructure development

Redefining boundaries of natural cities using spatial big data of infrastructure facilities