Editor’s Choice
The Editor’s Choice articles are the very best articles published on Highways Today, personally selected by the editor for their quality, relevance, and impact. These standout pieces represent the finest journalism on the site, offering insightful analysis, exceptional storytelling, and a clear view of the trends shaping the future of infrastructure and construction.
Who Owns the Intelligence in the Age of Digital Infrastructure
Who Owns the Intelligence in the Age of Digital Infrastructure Across global construction and infrastructure, digital transformation is no longer about adopting tools. It is about redistributing power...
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EIB Investment Push Accelerates Czech Infrastructure Modernisation
EIB Investment Push Accelerates Czech Infrastructure Modernisation In 2025, the European Investment Bank Group channelled €1.93 billion into projects across Czechia, reinforcing a pattern that has qui...
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Bi Oceanic Corridor Financing Connects Paraguay To Global Trade Routes
Bi Oceanic Corridor Financing Connects Paraguay To Global Trade Routes South America has long faced a paradox. The continent is rich in agricultural output, minerals and energy resources, yet moving t...
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Disaster Intelligence as the Backbone of Resilient Economies
Disaster Intelligence as the Backbone of Resilient Economies Across Asia and the Pacific, disasters are no longer occasional shocks. They have become recurring economic events that quietly erode devel...
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Trackunit IrisX Enables Real Time AI Equipment Intelligence
Trackunit IrisX Enables Real Time AI Equipment Intelligence For more than a decade, construction has invested heavily in telematics, sensors and connected machines. The sector now generates extraordin...
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Hyperspectral Imaging Is Transforming How Cities Understand Infrastructure
Hyperspectral Imaging Is Transforming How Cities Understand Infrastructure Across the developed world, transport authorities face a familiar dilemma. Roads are deteriorating faster than maintenance bu...
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Leading Infrastructure Into The Predictive Era
Leading Infrastructure Into The Predictive Era For most of the past century, infrastructure has been managed on the assumption that stability was normal and disruption was exceptional. Roads were desi...
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Large Scale Soy Pavement Trial Transforming Rural Infrastructure in Iowa
Large Scale Soy Pavement Trial Transforming Rural Infrastructure in Iowa Across 24 miles of rural northeast Iowa, a quiet but significant shift in infrastructure technology has taken place. What might...
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Kenya Advances Dual Carriageway Plans for Northern Corridor Trade
Kenya Advances Dual Carriageway Plans for Northern Corridor Trade Western Kenya’s busiest international highway is edging closer to a long-awaited transformation. The Government of Kenya, through its...
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CABEI Deepens Strategic Investment in the Dominican Republic’s Infrastructure
CABEI Deepens Strategic Investment in the Dominican Republic’s Infrastructure The scale of multilateral development finance flowing into the Dominican Republic has grown steadily in recent years, and...
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Deepwater Gas and Digital Drilling Strengthen Indonesia Energy Security
Deepwater Gas and Digital Drilling Strengthen Indonesia Energy Security Indonesia’s offshore sector is once again in the spotlight as SLB secures multiple offshore drilling services contracts from Mub...
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AI Powered Geoscience Accelerates Development at Konkola Copper Mines
AI Powered Geoscience Accelerates Development at Konkola Copper Mines The global race for copper has intensified. From electrified transport and grid expansion to data centres and renewable power, cop...
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Building Proof Into Intelligence as AI Moves Into Critical Infrastructure
Building Proof Into Intelligence as AI Moves Into Critical Infrastructure Midas has entered the public arena at a moment when artificial intelligence is no longer confined to experimental labs or cons...
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Capital Planning in the Age of AI Infrastructure
Capital Planning in the Age of AI Infrastructure Artificial intelligence has crossed a threshold that few in the construction and infrastructure world can now afford to ignore. What began as an operat...
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Global EPC Project Leaders Forum to Explore Delivering Mega Projects
Global EPC Project Leaders Forum to Explore Delivering Mega Projects Saudi Arabia’s infrastructure programme has moved well beyond ambition and into execution at scale. Across transport, aviation, urb...
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Digitising the Last Major Bottleneck in Geotechnical Investigation
Digitising the Last Major Bottleneck in Geotechnical Investigation Across the global construction and infrastructure sector, ground investigation remains one of the most risk-laden phases of project d...
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Agentic AI Moves Into the Enterprise Core as Airrived Emerges from Stealth
Agentic AI Moves Into the Enterprise Core as Airrived Emerges from Stealth Enterprise technology has spent the past decade chasing automation, yet most organisations still rely on human glue to stitch...
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Texas Doubles Down on Traffic Intelligence With Expanded INRIX Partnership
Texas Doubles Down on Traffic Intelligence With Expanded INRIX Partnership The Texas Department of Transportation has spent years building a reputation as one of the most data-driven transport agencie...
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Building a Trustworthy Industrial AI Stack for the Physical World
Building a Trustworthy Industrial AI Stack for the Physical World Dassault Systèmes and NVIDIA have moved well beyond a conventional technology tie up. Their newly announced long term strategic partne...
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Strategic Capital Meets Construction as Topcon Reinforces Its U.S. Retail Network
Strategic Capital Meets Construction as Topcon Reinforces Its U.S. Retail Network The decision by Topcon Positioning Systems to make a significant strategic investment in its U.S. retail arm, Topcon S...
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Construction Intelligence is Reshaping Global Infrastructure
Construction Intelligence is Reshaping Global Infrastructure Construction has always been a data-heavy industry. Long before the language of artificial intelligence entered boardrooms, projects were b...
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Building Coherence into Metro Manila’s Mass Transit
Building Coherence into Metro Manila’s Mass Transit Metro Manila’s rail network is once again at the centre of a policy debate that could reshape how urban transport concessions are structured across...
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Rethinking a Strategic Spine in Northern Chile’s Road Network
Rethinking a Strategic Spine in Northern Chile’s Road Network Northern Chile’s transport corridors sit at the crossroads of global trade, extractive industries and regional development. Few routes are...
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Control Tower Thinking Comes to Mining Equipment Inspections at Indaba
Control Tower Thinking Comes to Mining Equipment Inspections at Indaba Across the global mining industry, the conversation has shifted. Productivity, safety, compliance and cost control are no longer...
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London Mining Week Sets the Agenda for Global Mining in 2026
London Mining Week Sets the Agenda for Global Mining in 2026 From 27 November to 3 December 2026, London will once again become the focal point for the global mining industry as London Mining Week ret...
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Cat Signals a Strategic Shift in Hauling with the 707 Wide Body Truck
Cat Signals a Strategic Shift in Hauling with the 707 Wide Body Truck Across mining, quarrying and large-scale earthmoving operations, hauling efficiency often decides whether a project runs smoothly...
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Strategic Investment Set to Reshape Serbia’s Road Infrastructure
Strategic Investment Set to Reshape Serbia’s Road Infrastructure Across Europe, road networks are quietly being redefined as strategic national assets rather than passive conduits for traffic. S...
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Public Capital Unlocking Private Energy Investment in Kenya
Public Capital Unlocking Private Energy Investment in Kenya Kenya’s clean energy transition has quietly become one of the most credible and commercially grounded success stories in global infrastructu...
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Unlocking Subsurface Intelligence Across Mining Projects with Seequent
Unlocking Subsurface Intelligence Across Mining Projects with Seequent Across the global construction and mining ecosystem, the conversation around digital transformation often circles back to a singl...
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Mining and Quarrying Return to the Centre of Global Strategy
Mining and Quarrying Return to the Centre of Global Strategy For much of the past three decades, mining and quarrying sat in an awkward position in the public imagination. Essential, yes, but often tr...
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Rome Metro Line C Gains Momentum With €776m Northern Extension Contract
Rome Metro Line C Gains Momentum With €776m Northern Extension Contract Rome’s long-running Metro Line C programme has taken another decisive step forward, with Webuild and partner Vianini Lavori, ope...
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Northern Powerhouse Rail’s £45 Billion Blueprint for the North
Northern Powerhouse Rail’s £45 Billion Blueprint for the North After years of political noise, shifting plans and regional frustration, the UK Government has pushed Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR...
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Africa’s Green Economy Summit 2026 Targets Bankable Climate Infrastructure
Africa’s Green Economy Summit 2026 Targets Bankable Climate Infrastructure Africa’s climate story has never been short on ambition. Across the continent, governments, development institutions, and pri...
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EU and EIB Finance Cabo Verde’s Sustainable Port Transformation
EU and EIB Finance Cabo Verde’s Sustainable Port Transformation Cabo Verde’s future has always been tied to the sea. For an island nation spread across the Atlantic, ports aren’t simply logistics asse...
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Kyrgyz Republic Modernising Ageing Power Infrastructure with EBRD Support
Kyrgyz Republic Modernising Ageing Power Infrastructure with EBRD Support Keeping the lights on sounds like a simple promise, until a country’s power network starts showing its age. Across much of the...
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VINCI Expands New Zealand Footprint with Fletcher Construction Acquisition
VINCI Expands New Zealand Footprint with Fletcher Construction Acquisition VINCI Construction’s agreement to acquire Fletcher Construction is more than another overseas deal on a balance sheet. It’s a...
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InvestEU Helps Scale High Power EV Charging From the Baltic to the Adriatic
InvestEU Helps Scale High Power EV Charging From the Baltic to the Adriatic Central and Eastern Europe is about to get a sizeable boost in electric-vehicle charging capacity, and not in the slow, piec...
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Evolving the Quarry and Mining Workforce From the Rockface to Cyberspace
Evolving the Quarry and Mining Workforce From the Rockface to Cyberspace In a remote control centre far from any pit, a young technician monitors drilling data on multiple screens as autonomous trucks...
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The $2.5 Trillion Trade Finance Gap Holding Back Global Supply Chains
The $2.5 Trillion Trade Finance Gap Holding Back Global Supply Chains Global supply chains are moving again, but not always smoothly. After years of disruption, companies are diversifying markets, res...
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Uzbekistan Scales Solar Energy Project With Battery Storage and Grid Links
Uzbekistan Scales Solar Energy Project With Battery Storage and Grid Links Uzbekistan’s renewable energy ambitions are no longer confined to targets on paper or pilot projects tucked away from the rea...
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WEMAG Secures €220m to Accelerate Grid Upgrades in Northern Germany
WEMAG Secures €220m to Accelerate Grid Upgrades in Northern Germany Germany’s energy transition has never been short on ambition, but it’s the infrastructure underneath it all that decides whether pro...
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Egypt’s Obelisk Solar Project Secures US$150m EIB Financing
Egypt’s Obelisk Solar Project Secures US$150m EIB Financing Egypt’s energy transition has moved beyond ambition and into execution, with the Obelisk solar photovoltaic project in Qena Governorat...
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Kazakhstan’s Almaty Railway Bypass Secures US$300m Financing
Kazakhstan’s Almaty Railway Bypass Secures US$300m Financing Kazakhstan has spent the past decade positioning itself as a practical bridge between East and West, but bridges only matter if they don’t...
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Rethinking Screen Media for Today’s Aggregates Operations
Rethinking Screen Media for Today’s Aggregates Operations In mineral processing, efficiency is rarely decided by a single machine. It is shaped by the interaction between crushers, conveyors, fe...
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Electric Excavators Finding Their Place in Harsh Quarry Environments
Electric Excavators Finding Their Place in Harsh Quarry Environments Across the global construction and materials sector, electrification is no longer confined to urban job sites, indoor demolition, o...
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The New Blueprint for Sustainable Mining
The New Blueprint for Sustainable Mining Mining and quarrying have long been synonymous with environmental disruption, from gaping open pits and scarred landscapes to polluted waterways and deforestat...
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EBRD Financing Unlocks Heavy Lift Infrastructure Across Central Asia
EBRD Financing Unlocks Heavy Lift Infrastructure Across Central Asia Across Central Asia, a quiet but decisive shift is under way. Wind farms are rising across open steppe, ports and rail corridors ar...
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EU Backs Rail Upgrade in Montenegro to Bolster Balkan Connectivity
EU Backs Rail Upgrade in Montenegro to Bolster Balkan Connectivity The European Union has committed a substantial €175.6 million package to reconstruct 39 kilometres of the Bar-Golubovci railway line,...
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Hawaii Builds a Data Driven Road Network With Bentley Blyncsy
Hawaii Builds a Data Driven Road Network With Bentley Blyncsy Across the global road sector, one challenge refuses to go away. Governments spend billions building and upgrading highways, yet most of t...
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Caterpillar shows of Cat AI Assistant at CES
Caterpillar shows of Cat AI Assistant at CES After more than a century of engineering progress, Caterpillar Inc. has reached another inflection point with the launch of Cat AI Assistant. Rather than t...
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