Editor’s Choice
The Editorβs 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.
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 β¬90 Million Wagon Deal Marks Rail Freight’s Next Capital Cycle
How a β¬90 Million Wagon Deal Marks Rail Freight’s Next Capital Cycle A β¬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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Civilisation 2.0 and the Infrastructure That Will Define It
Civilisation 2.0 and the Infrastructure That Will Define It Somewhere beneath a residential street in Singapore last year, an acoustic sensor picked up a sound no human ear would have noticed. A faint...
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The Hidden Smart Infrastructure Revolution
The Hidden Smart Infrastructure Revolution The worldβs most important infrastructure transformation is no longer visible from a motorway flyover, airport terminal or towering suspension bridge. Increa...
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Philippines Expanding Cargo Aviation Strategy Through Subic Bay Airport Upgrade
Philippines Expanding Cargo Aviation Strategy Through Subic Bay Airport Upgrade The race to modernise logistics infrastructure across Southeast Asia has intensified, and the Philippines is positioning...
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MetroLink Procurement Push Accelerates Dublinβs Rail Transformation
MetroLink Procurement Push Accelerates Dublinβs Rail Transformation Dublinβs long-awaited MetroLink programme has entered another decisive phase as Transport Infrastructure Ireland formally launched p...
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NXT Activate Signals a New Era for AEC Software Innovation
NXT Activate Signals a New Era for AEC Software Innovation The architecture, engineering and construction technology sector has spent the past decade wrestling with fragmentation. Data sits trapped in...
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Bentley Commits to Japanese Infrastructure Development with New Leadership
Bentley Commits to Japanese Infrastructure Development with New Leadership Japanβs infrastructure sector is entering a pivotal decade. From ageing transport networks and climate resilience upgrades to...
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When Infrastructure Starts Listening
When Infrastructure Starts Listening For years, smart cities were sold as something glossy, futuristic and just a little too neat. Control rooms with wall-sized screens. Autonomous vehicles gliding th...
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monday.com Rebuilds SaaS Around AI Agents and Human Collaboration
monday.com Rebuilds SaaS Around AI Agents and Human Collaboration Enterprise software is entering a new phase, and the race is no longer about who can bolt the most AI features onto an existing produc...
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The Ten Trillion Bet on Intelligent Infrastructure
The Ten Trillion Bet on Intelligent Infrastructure The worldβs roads, railways, ports, airports, power grids and utilities are no longer being valued as lumps of concrete, steel, pipework, cables and...
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The Global Tall Buildings Index 2026
The Global Tall Buildings Index 2026 The first generation of skyscrapers was about squeezing more floor space onto expensive urban land. The second was about prestige, global branding and national con...
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Building Megaprojects for Future Generations
Building Megaprojects for Future Generations For years, sustainability sat awkwardly at the edge of megaproject delivery. It appeared in glossy bid documents, tucked behind engineering schedules and f...
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Jordan Advances Landmark PPP for Amman Elevated Expressway
Jordan Advances Landmark PPP for Amman Elevated Expressway Jordan has taken a decisive step towards reshaping its urban transport network, opening prequalification for what is set to become the countr...
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Mapping the Future of Global Megaproject Spending
Mapping the Future of Global Megaproject Spending The next trillion dollars of megaproject spending will not land in a single skyline, a single corridor, or behind a single political slogan. It is alr...
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Megaproject Risk Under The Microscope
Megaproject Risk Under The Microscope Megaprojects Month: Week Three | April 2026 The numbers that wonβt improve, the governance gaps that wonβt close, and the commercial fightback that might finally...
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Southeast Asia Accelerates Cross Border Power Infrastructure
Southeast Asia Accelerates Cross Border Power Infrastructure Southeast Asiaβs ambition to build a fully integrated regional electricity network has taken a decisive step forward with the launch of a n...
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VΓΆgele SUPER 1803 5 X Paver Sets New Benchmark for Precision and Speed
VΓΆgele SUPER 1803 5 X Paver Sets New Benchmark for Precision and Speed In the demanding world of industrial surfacing, where downtime is costly and durability is non-negotiable, equipment choices can...
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The Machine Behind the Megaproject
The Machine Behind the Megaproject Megaprojects Month: Week Two | April 2026 There is a number that haunts the infrastructure industry, sitting quietly behind every major programme announcement, every...
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Engineering Resilience Across Continents in Modern Mining Operations
Engineering Resilience Across Continents in Modern Mining Operations From the equatorial heat of West Africa to the frozen reaches of Northern Europe, mining operations continue to push machinery to i...
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Aeva Expands AI Powered Traffic Intelligence Across Atlanta Intersections
Aeva Expands AI Powered Traffic Intelligence Across Atlanta Intersections The push towards smarter, safer and more responsive road networks has taken another step forward as Aeva secures a significant...
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Spainβs High-Speed Rail Expansion and the Real Cost of Ambition
Spainβs High-Speed Rail Expansion and the Real Cost of Ambition Spainβs high-speed rail programme stands as one of the most ambitious infrastructure undertakings in modern Europe. Over a period of rou...
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Financing the Impossible Megaproject
Financing the Impossible Megaproject Megaprojects Month: Week One | April 2026 Megaprojects have always tested the limits of engineering ambition, but today theyβre increasingly defined by something l...
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South Africa Builds Rail Momentum with Strategic Finance
South Africa Builds Rail Momentum with Strategic Finance South Africa is edging closer to a pivotal moment in its transport evolution, as government prepares to issue a request for proposals for new h...
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