Game Changers: The megatrends that will redefine global infrastructure

In a world increasingly volatile, change is the only constant. 

As every business and industry seeks the agility to navigate a shifting landscape, including the digital revolution, AI and the race to net zero, Steer’s latest insight report explores seven megatrends transforming how we move, power and connect the world. 

Launched to coincide with Infralogic Investors Forum Europe 2025, Game Changers captures the forces reshaping long-term investment, strategy and sustainability across our industry.

Each chapter provides a glimpse of a future already in motion, paired with practical insight for investors, asset owners and governments who want to adapt and unlock opportunity:

• Air mobility: A new layer of urban transport takes flight.
• Highways: The digital backbone of connected and autonomous mobility.
• Fleet electrification: A maturing market creating new real estate and financing frontiers.
• Data centres: Powerhouses of the digital economy become catalysts for heat decarbonisation – an insight authored by Amberside Advisors, specialists in financial and commercial advisory for critical infrastructure, renewables, and the energy transition, and part of the Steer Group.
• Rail: Battery technology reshaping the journey to net zero.
• Ports & maritime: Trade, investment and geopolitics at the tipping point of resilience.
• Aviation: The race for net-zero flight begins on the ground.

 “As advisors to investors, lenders and owners through the full deal lifecycle – having supported more than €140 billion in transport infrastructure transactions over the past five years – we see first-hand how relentless the pace of change has become,” says Jon Peters, Infrastructure and Asset Advisory Lead at Steer.

“Game Changers gives us a snapshot of the megatrends reshaping infrastructure and investment, and an invitation to think differently about what comes next. Our role is to help clients anticipate and respond to that change, building resilience and agility into the systems that move people and goods around the world.”