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.
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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The Smart Quarry and the Age of Data Driven Extraction
The Smart Quarry and the Age of Data Driven Extraction Modern quarrying is undergoing a quiet revolution. Once perceived as dusty, rugged sites relying on brute force and old-school intuition, quarrie...
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Bentley Systems Expands Asset Analytics Capabilities with Strategic Acquisitions
Bentley Systems Expands Asset Analytics Capabilities with Strategic Acquisitions Bentley Systems has taken a decisive step to reinforce its position in infrastructure asset intelligence with the acqui...
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Resetting the Clock on West Yorkshire Mass Transit
Resetting the Clock on West Yorkshire Mass Transit West Yorkshire’s long anticipated mass transit scheme has entered a more deliberate phase, with the UK government and the West Yorkshire Combined Aut...
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Brazil Reopens Consultation for Strategic Port Lease at São Sebastião
Brazil Reopens Consultation for Strategic Port Lease at São Sebastião Brazil’s port sector rarely stands still for long, yet some decisions carry more weight than others. The reopening of public consu...
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Major Stations, Rail and Systems Contract Opens for Toronto Subway Expansion
Major Stations, Rail and Systems Contract Opens for Toronto Subway Expansion Infrastructure Ontario and Metrolinx have taken a decisive step forward in delivering one of the Greater Toronto Area’s mos...
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Renewable Energy and Logistics Infrastructure Investments in Kazakhstan
Renewable Energy and Logistics Infrastructure Investments in Kazakhstan Kazakhstan’s push to modernise its energy and logistics backbone has taken a decisive step forward with new financing from the E...
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How Quarries and Aggregates Power Modern Infrastructure
How Quarries and Aggregates Power Modern Infrastructure Modern infrastructure is literally built on rock. Every highway, bridge, rail bed, airport runway, and wind farm rests upon millions of tonnes o...
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Rio Tinto Deepens Partnership with Yinhawangka People in the Pilbara
Rio Tinto Deepens Partnership with Yinhawangka People in the Pilbara Yinhawangka Aboriginal Corporation and Rio Tinto have taken a significant step in redefining how large-scale mining operates on tra...
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EBRD Investment Securing Water and Agriculture in Morocco
EBRD Investment Securing Water and Agriculture in Morocco Water has always shaped Morocco’s agricultural heartlands, but in recent decades the balance has tilted dangerously. Declining rainfall, risin...
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Almonty and South Korea Take Centre Stage in the Global Tungsten Supply Chain
Almonty and South Korea Take Centre Stage in the Global Tungsten Supply Chain Almonty Industries Inc. has crossed a decisive threshold at its flagship Sangdong Mine in South Korea. The successful deli...
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Investing in Power for Saudi Arabia’s Mountain Economy
Investing in Power for Saudi Arabia’s Mountain Economy High above the Red Sea coast, where the Sarawat Mountains reshape long-held assumptions about Saudi Arabia’s geography, Soudah Peaks is emerging...
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Sharper Insights for Critical Minerals with Data-Driven Mining
Sharper Insights for Critical Minerals with Data-Driven Mining GeologicAI has taken a decisive step to strengthen its position in the global critical minerals sector with the acquisition of Lumo Analy...
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Humans and Machines Redefine Construction Careers
Humans and Machines Redefine Construction Careers Around the world, construction sites are undergoing a quiet revolution. Machines are taking over the “dull, dirty, and dangerous” tasks, and human wor...
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Santa’s Smart Logistics
Santa’s Smart Logistics How the North Pole Would Deliver Christmas in the Digital Age Every December, the same question quietly lingers in the background. How could one operation possibly deliver bill...
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ADB Expands Finance and Infrastructure Investment in Papua New Guinea
ADB Expands Finance and Infrastructure Investment in Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea stands at a pivotal moment in its development trajectory. With a rapidly growing population, vast natural resourc...
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Poland’s Offshore Wind Ambitions Gain Momentum with EIB Finance
Poland’s Offshore Wind Ambitions Gain Momentum with EIB Finance The European Investment Bank will commit €600 million to the construction of BC-Wind, a 390 MW offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea that...
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Strategic Finance Behind Europe’s Lithium Energy Ambitions
Strategic Finance Behind Europe’s Lithium Energy Ambitions Europe’s race to secure critical raw materials has taken a decisive step forward with the European Investment Bank agreeing to provide €250 m...
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EBRD Road Finance Reinforces Moldova’s Gateway to European Markets
EBRD Road Finance Reinforces Moldova’s Gateway to European Markets Moldova’s road network has moved back into the spotlight following a fresh commitment from the European Bank for Reconstruction and D...
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ADB Financing Climate Resilient Roads in Timor Leste
ADB Financing Climate Resilient Roads in Timor Leste The Government of Timor-Leste and the Asian Development Bank have formalised a significant financing package aimed at restoring and futureproofing...
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