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.
When Infrastructure Starts Managing Itself: The Next Step Beyond Digital Twins
When Infrastructure Starts Managing Itself: The Next Step Beyond Digital Twins A construction equipment fleet can generate detailed information about engine hours, fuel consumption, idle time and prod...
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Every Innovation Starts with a Problem
Every Innovation Starts with a Problem A conventional wheelbarrow seems a remarkably simple piece of equipment. It has a tray, two handles, a supporting frame and a wheel. Its basic design has survive...
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Uzbekistan Launches $371 Million Electricity Grid Modernisation Programme
Uzbekistan Launches $371 Million Electricity Grid Modernisation Programme Uzbekistan is preparing to modernise 60 priority electricity substations under a $371 million investment programme financed by...
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Teflon Capitalism: How Investment Funds Absorb the Shock of Geopolitical Risk
Teflon Capitalism: How Investment Funds Absorb the Shock of Geopolitical Risk Between January 2020 and May 2026, Germany’s DAX index rose by approximately 90%, the S&P 500 by 130% and Japan...
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Asphalt Pavement Emissions Over 250 Times Lower Than Previous Estimates
Asphalt Pavement Emissions Over 250 Times Lower Than Previous Estimates Peer-reviewed research from the University of California, Riverside has found that emissions from compacted asphalt pavements ar...
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Chicago’s Infrastructure Investment Drives a New Wave of Construction
Chicago’s Infrastructure Investment Drives a New Wave of Construction Chicago’s construction industry is managing a substantial pipeline of major projects, from a long-awaited extension of...
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ADB Backs $350m Upgrade of Azerbaijan’s North-South Railway Corridor
ADB Backs $350m Upgrade of Azerbaijan’s North-South Railway Corridor Azerbaijan’s railway connection with Russia is set for a major technical overhaul following the Asian Development Bank...
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When Infrastructure Starts Changing the Weather
When Infrastructure Starts Changing the Weather When China’s Three Gorges Reservoir filled, around 40 cubic kilometres of water were moved into a new position on the surface of the Earth. It was...
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Construction Marketing is an Asset that Compounds
Construction Marketing is an Asset that Compounds Construction companies are accustomed to buying things that remain after the invoice has been paid. A new excavator enters the fleet. A batching plant...
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Turning Southern Africa’s Infrastructure Plans into Bankable Projects
Turning Southern Africa’s Infrastructure Plans into Bankable Projects Southern Africa does not lack infrastructure ambitions. The harder problem is getting projects far enough through feasibility stud...
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Documenting the Expertise Your CV Cannot Show
Documenting the Expertise Your CV Cannot Show Put two civil engineers in the same room. Both have spent twenty years working on major infrastructure projects. Both have managed difficult jobs, solved...
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Infrastructure as an Economic Catalyst
Infrastructure as an Economic Catalyst New roads through developing parts of Vietnam have often produced an effect that extends well beyond the carriageway. Once access improves, houses begin appearin...
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Reputation is Infrastructure You Build in Advance
Reputation is Infrastructure You Build in Advance Somewhere, a construction company is being researched by somebody it has never met. It might be a contractor looking for technology to solve an unusua...
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Costa Rica Turns to Firm Power to Protect its Renewable Grid
Costa Rica Turns to Firm Power to Protect its Renewable Grid Costa Rica is preparing to add 200 MW of firm thermal generation to one of the world’s most renewable electricity systems. The Moín I...
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Motif Design Takes AI Agents Into the Building Model
Motif Design Takes AI Agents Into the Building Model Motif has launched the product that reveals what a team of former Autodesk executives has been building with $46 million of investment: a browser-b...
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You Don’t Need to Market Like a Multinational Anymore
You Don’t Need to Market Like a Multinational Anymore Editorial disclosure: This article forms part of Highways.Today’s Construction Marketing Month. Highways.Today provides the Expert Art...
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Command Alkon Turns 50 as Heavy Materials Software Moves to the Cloud
Command Alkon Turns 50 as Heavy Materials Software Moves to the Cloud Five employees started building software for the ready-mix concrete industry in 1976. Fifty years later, Command Alkon says its sy...
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Senegal Expands Agricultural Road Network with $140m Financing
Senegal Expands Agricultural Road Network with $140m Financing Senegal is preparing another 275 kilometres of paved roads and laterite tracks through two agricultural corridors in the east of the coun...
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The Construction Marketing Playbook Has Changed
The Construction Marketing Playbook Has Changed New tools are giving ambitious specialist companies greater reach, intelligence and freedom to experiment, but established brands still begin with formi...
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Volvo R70 Rigid Hauler Makes European Debut at Bettenfeld Quarry
Volvo R70 Rigid Hauler Makes European Debut at Bettenfeld Quarry Europe’s first Stage V Volvo R70 rigid hauler has entered service at SHF Steinbruchbetriebe’s Bettenfeld Quarry in Germany,...
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€79.3m Financing Backs New Generation of European Aggregate Carriers
€79.3m Financing Backs New Generation of European Aggregate Carriers Germany’s KfW IPEX-Bank is providing €79.3 million to finance two 44,000-tonne self-unloading bulk carriers destined for one...
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When Construction Starts Learning
When Construction Starts Learning An excavator working to a 3D model can leave behind far more than the finished formation. Machine control records where it worked, while telematics can provide anothe...
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The Autonomous Construction Company
The Autonomous Construction Company The familiar vision of construction autonomy is a physical one. An autonomous excavator works a site while drones survey progress overhead and robotic equipment han...
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Construction Prone to Digitising the Problems It Should Be Eliminating
Construction Prone to Digitising the Problems It Should Be Eliminating Construction companies are spending heavily on digital transformation, replacing spreadsheets, disconnected databases and ageing...
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The Golden Thread is Becoming Construction’s Information Backbone
The Golden Thread is Becoming Construction’s Information Backbone For most of construction’s history, the physical asset has been the deliverable and the information surrounding it has bee...
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Procore Asset Register Signals the End of Traditional Construction Handover
Procore Asset Register Signals the End of Traditional Construction Handover Procore Technologies has moved its Asset Register tool to general availability, and while the headline is a productivity sto...
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Kanadevia Inova Takes Europe’s Waste-to-Energy Playbook to Morocco
Kanadevia Inova Takes Europe’s Waste-to-Energy Playbook to Morocco A concession agreement signed with the Municipality of Casablanca has handed a Swiss-Japanese-Moroccan consortium the exclusive...
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The Biggest Change in Construction is Not AI, It’s Recurring Revenue
The Biggest Change in Construction is Not AI, It’s Recurring Revenue The industry has already published thousands of features on artificial intelligence, building information modelling, drones,...
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How a €90 Million Wagon Deal Marks Rail Freight’s Next Capital Cycle
How a €90 Million Wagon Deal Marks Rail Freight’s Next Capital Cycle A €90 million senior debt facility for roughly 900 standard freight wagons would, on its own, barely register against the sca...
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Why Rewarding Good Drivers Could Transform Road Safety
Why Rewarding Good Drivers Could Transform Road Safety Every day, millions of drivers obey the speed limit. They receive no recognition, no reward and rarely even a second thought, while almost every...
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The Roundabout Paradox: The Safer Junction Millions of Drivers Still Resist
The Roundabout Paradox: The Safer Junction Millions of Drivers Still Resist Every year, hundreds of thousands of crashes occur at road intersections in the United States, and a disproportionate share...
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Istanbul’s North Rail Crossing Closes the Middle Corridor’s Last Great Bottleneck
Istanbul’s North Rail Crossing Closes the Middle Corridor’s Last Great Bottleneck The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank has signed the first phase of a financing package worth up to USD...
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Rewriting Bitumen Emulsion Procurement with Bio-Based Enhancers
Rewriting Bitumen Emulsion Procurement with Bio-Based Enhancers At the Bituroad Conference 2026 in Tbilisi, among keynotes on corridor economics and supply-chain resilience, a technical presentation f...
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Bio-Based Chemistry Recycling Roads at Room Temperature
Bio-Based Chemistry Recycling Roads at Room Temperature For most of the past four decades the road industry has been measured by how much it builds. The more instructive question now is how much it ca...
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Esri Moves Real-Time GIS Behind the Firewall With ArcGIS Velocity
Esri Moves Real-Time GIS Behind the Firewall With ArcGIS Velocity Esri has made ArcGIS Velocity generally available for self-hosted ArcGIS Enterprise, and for infrastructure owners the significance is...
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The Intelligent Machine Has Arrived
The Intelligent Machine Has Arrived Picture a working earthworks site on a weekday morning. An excavator trims a batter to design grade on its own, its boom and bucket following a three-dimensional mo...
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Harare’s US$3 Billion Light Rail on Track for 2029
Harare’s US$3 Billion Light Rail on Track for 2029 The Zimbabwean government has moved its most ambitious urban transport plan in a generation from aspiration towards execution, granting Nationa...
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The Next Frontier of Equipment Procurement
The Next Frontier of Equipment Procurement For most of the industry’s history, acquiring a bulldozer or excavator was a reasonably contained transaction. A contractor sized up a machine against...
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Digital Twins and 3D Delivery Drive Bentley’s Japanese Growth Strategy
Digital Twins and 3D Delivery Drive Bentley’s Japanese Growth Strategy Bentley Systems has opened a regional headquarters in Tokyo and committed to more than doubling its Japanese workforce over...
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Global Aviation Africa 2027 to put Morocco at the Centre of Airport Investment
Global Aviation Africa 2027 to put Morocco at the Centre of Airport Investment A memorandum of understanding between two event companies would not, on its own, register as infrastructure news. What ma...
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MIGA Guarantees $200m for Kazakhstan’s Middle Corridor Rail Modernisation
MIGA Guarantees $200m for Kazakhstan’s Middle Corridor Rail Modernisation On its own, the latest tranche of financing for Kazakhstan’s national railway looks modest, but the structure behi...
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The Economics of Bitumen
The Economics of Bitumen Almost every road authority, contractor and asset owner on earth buys bitumen, yet very few can explain how its price is actually set. The popular shorthand, that bitumen simp...
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Decoding Bitumen Specifications Around the World
Decoding Bitumen Specifications Around the World Why 60/70 in One Country Isn’t Always the Same in Another Bitumen specifications look deceptively simple until money is on the line. Globally, bi...
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The Bataan Cavite Interlink Bridge Could Rewire Luzon
The Bataan Cavite Interlink Bridge Could Rewire Luzon For years, getting from the industrial belt of Bataan to the factory towns of Cavite has meant a long, grinding detour through the most congested...
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Freight Becomes The Real Price Of Bitumen
Freight Becomes The Real Price Of Bitumen When a chokepoint at the mouth of the Gulf seizes up, most people picture petrol pumps and jittery stock tickers. Road builders feel it somewhere less obvious...
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Procore Turns the Common Data Environment into a Launchpad for Agentic AI
Procore Turns the Common Data Environment into a Launchpad for Agentic AI Procore Technologies has pulled the wraps off a connected Common Data Environment built to keep a project’s digital reco...
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When A Copper Mine Starts Trading Like A Currency
When A Copper Mine Starts Trading Like A Currency A trading agreement that slipped out quietly this week may end up mattering far more to the people who build, fund and police major infrastructure tha...
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Financing the Green Transition Across Central Asia
Financing the Green Transition Across Central Asia For decades, the countries of the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) programme have been building growth on familiar foundations. Ene...
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The Global Bitumen Supply Chain Explained
The Global Bitumen Supply Chain Explained Consider a typical single resurfacing project on a road project anywhere in the world. The binder arriving at the asphalt plant may have been refined from cru...
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Procore Pushes Agentic AI Into the Construction Mainstream
Procore Pushes Agentic AI Into the Construction Mainstream Construction has never suffered from a shortage of information. Modern projects generate mountains of drawings, specifications, requests for...
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