water infrastructure, schools, affordable broadband, public parks and recreation, libraries, or public facilities that train workers and build labor skills. (15) Connectivity The term connectivity means the linkages in transportation, energy, communications, and community development infrastructure, as well as manufacturing and data centers, that tie geographic areas together into economic units, including networks of commuter routes, railways, shipping lanes, and internet cables, including geomatic data of the kind now collected by the Department of Transportation. (16) Cost benefit analysis The term cost benefit analysis means the comparison of the stream of costs for a potential project over its useful lifetime, to its public benefits over that time, with cost and benefit flows expressed on a common basis in terms of net present value. (17) Development The terms development and develop mean, with respect to an infrastructure project, any— (A) preconstruction planning, feasibility review for stand-alone projects or for bundled projects, permitting, design work, life-cycle maintenance planning, and other preconstruction activities