《基礎設施系統雜志》發表了有關監測、評估、擴大、修理、更換、資助或以其他方式維持民用基礎設施的方法的跨學科論文。支持人類活動的基礎設施包括復雜和相互關聯的物理、社會、生態、經濟和技術系統，如交通、能源生產和分配；水資源管理；廢物管理；支持城鄉社區的設施；通信；可持續資源開發以及環境保護。越來越需要跨和多學科專門知識，不僅是為了設計和建立這些系統，而且也是為了管理和維持這些系統。典型的管理問題充滿了不確定的信息、多個和相互沖突的目標，有時還有許多和相互沖突的選民。解決方案在本質上既復雜又跨學科，需要將良好的工程判斷、經濟靈活性和制度上的忍耐進行深思熟慮的整合。考慮出版的論文必須包含一個清晰明確的工程部分，并為基礎設施系統的藝術和科學做出貢獻。

The Journal of Infrastructure Systems publishes cross-disciplinary papers about methodologies for monitoring, evaluating, expanding, repairing, replacing, financing, or otherwise sustaining the civil infrastructure.The infrastructure supporting human activities includes complex and interrelated physical, social, ecological, economic, and technological systems such as transportation, energy production and distribution; water resources management; waste management; facilities supporting urban and rural communities; communications; sustainable resources development; and environmental protection. Increasingly, inter- and multidisciplinary expertise is needed not only to design and build these systems, but to manage and sustain them as well. Typical management problems are fraught with uncertain information, multiple and conflicting objectives, and sometimes numerous and conflicting constituencies. Solutions are both complex and cross-disciplinary in nature and require the thoughtful integration of sound engineering judgment, economic flexibility, and institutional forbearance. Papers considered for publication must contain a clear and well-defined engineering component and make a contribution to the art and science related to infrastructure systems.