CROSS-INFRASTRUCTURE POSSIBILITIES
RAIL Roads provide flexible and accessible connectivity, while rail systems offer a more efficient and cost-effective means for transporting large quantities of goods and people over longer distances.
BROADBAND Highway right-of-way is often a natural fit for co-location with electric transmission facilities and broadband. If these facilities are buried, building within highway right‑of‑way can reduce opposition due to eminent domain, improve the security and resilience of the system, reduce environmental impacts, accelerate the decarbonization of transportation, provide revenue through value capture strategies, and better connect communities within an existing network.
ELECTRIC The development of electric infrastructure, including charging stations and networks, is essential to support widespread use of electric vehicles and promote their integration into the existing road network.
OTHER INFRASTRUCTURE SDDOT, county highway departments, municipal public works departments, and other owners of roadways are very familiar with coordinating with utility companies and railroads to coordinate construction needs, conflicts, and relocations. These policies and processes could provide the basis of an infrastructure planning clearinghouse, that helps all infrastructure types at all levels of government and the private sector break out of silos to provide the best most efficient infrastructure for taxpayers and rate payers.
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