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Knowledge platform of infrastructure managers

Next Generation Infrastructures (NGinfra) is the knowledge platform of managers of six critical infrastructures in the Netherlands: Alliander, Port of Rotterdam Authority, ProRail, Rijkswaterstaat, Schiphol and Vitens. We investigate infrastructure issues as if we were a single manager. Our scientific knowledge has an impact on the long-term policy and working methods of infrastructure managers.

NGinfra creates impact with knowledge. Not only individually and within the partner organisations, but also as partners together and in society. We stimulate change by developing knowledge, organising knowledge exchange and promoting cross-sectoral choices. Always for the long term and based on the goals of two NGinfra Roadmaps.

The importance of cross-sectoral cooperation
Our infrastructures that are available 24/7 for transporting people, goods, electricity and water contribute to the quality of life in our country. We are facing complex tasks and transitions with developments such as the energy transition, digitisation, broad prosperity and scarcity of space, personnel and money. We can only face them together.

Each infrastructure manager is responsible for the management and maintenance of its own network. In recent decades, however, interactions between infrastructures have grown strongly: they use each other and are dependent on each other. They are functionally and geographically connected and face the same challenges.