This approach reinforces the need for a place-based assessment of infrastructure through measures such as growth infrastructure compacts where scenario testing is used to identify key inter-relationships, triggers and thresholds in the sequencing of land use change and infrastructure delivery.
A major challenge for providers of infrastructure is to realise the innovative opportunities in placebased interdependencies, and so increase value for money, sustainability and resilience. It is necessary to recognise that real-world infrastructure systems are highly interconnected, both with each other and with the socio-economic and natural systems in which they are located.