An interesting accounting quirk could come to the rescue: infrastructure spend is classified as 'capital', not 'current', spending, and with a £3 boost to the economy per £1 spent, the pressure could encourage a strategy of investing for growth and companies that benefit could see profits boosted.
While drones have historically been expensive and predominantly for military use, they're getting cheaper, smaller, and used for commerical purposes like search and rescue, infrastructure inspections, open air mining operations, and much more.
Publishers, hoping to rescue the bookselling infrastructure that had sustained them for decades, needed another new model and looked to Apple to increase competition and level the playing field.
The massive Townsend After Action report on Katrina does not mention oil spill cleanup, but it does identify 17 "Critical Challenges", 125 recommendations, and 243 action items, covering everything from Search and Rescue to transportation infrastructure to proper routing of foreign assistance [18].
Network Rail (High Speed) operates engineering, track maintenance machines, rescue locomotives, and infrastructure- and test trains.
In recent months, some human rights activists have praised the United States and the International Monetary Fund for quietly pressing the Angolan government to reduce poverty, to repair shattered infrastructure, to rescue the collapsing health and school systems and to respect press freedoms.
Increasingly, drones are proving vital for inspecting transport infrastructure for repair or aiding police and fire services in search and rescue operations, even helping to save lives.
Nor is that rate acceptable for roads, public safety (police, fire, and rescue), and the other infrastructure we rely on.
Indeed, a large cruise ship has announced a voyage from Alaska to New York across the top of Canada as a harbinger of some new marketable tourist destination, one fraught with navigational difficulty, possible physical and environmental catastrophe, and no infrastructure for rescue or cleanup.
The government said it is comfortable with companies using drones for inspecting crops, search and rescue, aerial photography and other infrastructure inspection.
Governments are looking to rescue their economies, and see infrastructure as a key lever.
