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Infrastructure Type

This dimension groups transport infrastructure by the kind of structure it actually is, a station, a bridge, a canal or otherwise. Wikipedia notes that infrastructure includes "public and private physical structures such as roads, railways, bridges, airports, public transit systems, tunnels, water supply, sewers, electrical grids, and telecommunications," a genuinely wide range of physical forms. Browsing by infrastructure type keeps comparable structures together regardless of which transport network they serve.

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Era of Emergence
4000 BCE 1
Infrastructure Type
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Canal
WikipediaCanal, oldest known canals
Quote, Canal, oldest known canals
The oldest known canals were irrigation canals, built in Mesopotamia c. 4000 BC, in what is now Iraq.
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