The interrelationship between transport infrastructure, economic development and urbanization has been widely discussed in the literature. So much so, that many of the ideas about these relationships have also been utilized in designing development policies in many countries.
In this study, we seek to provide a characterization and analysis of the government’s move to intensify its spending on transport infrastructure. Using publicly available government financial documents, we aim to produce a more simplified and useful characterization of the distribution of government funds related to transport infrastructure. More specifically, our goal is to map out transport infrastructure projects over the past two decades, in terms of percentage share in government budget (both the National Government and transport-related agencies), sectoral (i.e. air, maritime, road, railway) as well as regional distribution.