1. What is infrastructure?

An infrastructure is the set of items or services that are considered necessary for an organization to function or for an activity to develop effectively.

On the other hand, infrastructure is the material basis of a society and which determine the social structure, development and social change thereof, including these levels of productive forces and production relations in it are given.

Infrastructure to present a particular society unfolds role of the fundamental UN in regard to development and social change , just because when Change Infrastructure unfailingly changes society as a whole, the relations of power, institutions and obviously also the elements of the superstructure. An infrastructure is also important, …show more content…
Today’s infrastructure in Brazil.

Road Network: The Brazilian road network, with a total length of approximately 1.6 million kilometers, is the fourth biggest road network in the world. The road network operated under federal jurisdiction covers 74,000km in length, while state and municipal jurisdiction roads cover 242,000km and 1.2 million kilometers respectively.
The majority of Brazilian roads are unpaved, and paved roads constitute just 13% of the total road network. The country has 12 federal highways and 19 state highways. Around 83% of the federal highways and 50% of the state highways are paved, whereas most municipal roads are unpaved.
The BR-101 highway, spanning 4,800km in length, is the longest federal highway in the country, connecting 12 state capitals. The BR-116, a major north-south federal highway, is the second longest measuring 4,385km.
The roads began to be built in the early nineteenth century, and routes emerged in the 1920s, first in the Northeast, as part of a strategy for dealing with drought. In 1928 it was inaugurated the first paved road linking Rio de Janeiro to Petropolis, now known as the Washington Luis …show more content…
With the exception of lead- North -South lines, all other regions are poorly communicated between them.

The railway infrastructure in the country remains quite inadequate and late. The conditions maintenance are precarious , tracing the lines between two equal points have a route 30% higher on average than the roads and , compared to 80 km/h trains Americans, the average train speed is 25 km/h.
The April 30, 1954 became the first train ride with a distance of 14 km. By 1889, Brazil had about ten thousand kilometers of railways, but it was in the early 20th century took a big step in the development of the railways, which was built between 1911 and 1916 more than five thousand kilometers of lines railway. The expansion train of the early 20th century and then brought economic and social development of many municipalities in Brazil, and San Angelo, in Rio Grande do Sul.
The government of President Juscelino Kubitschek, who took office on January 31 1956, ruled until 31 January 1961 that gave the slowdown in the construction of railways to emphasize the construction of roads, such as the Belém-Brazila. Government Plan objectives provide for the application of the automotive industry, with interests also in the development of oil and petroleum products. The policy followed by the military government was no different, including deactivation of the railways, rather than expand