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.
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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Uzbekistan Advances Aviation Ambitions with Yangi Bukhara Airport PPP
Uzbekistan Advances Aviation Ambitions with Yangi Bukhara Airport PPP Uzbekistan has taken a decisive step in reshaping its regional connectivity strategy, launching an international tender for the co...
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Hillhead 2026 Expands Capacity as Demand Signals Strong Market Confidence
Hillhead 2026 Expands Capacity as Demand Signals Strong Market Confidence Set against the rugged limestone backdrop of Hillhead Quarry in the United Kingdom, the upcoming edition of Hillhead 2026 is s...
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Securing the Future of Aluminium Production in Queensland
Securing the Future of Aluminium Production in Queensland The agreement to secure the long-term future of the Boyne aluminium smelter marks a significant intervention in Australiaβs industrial landsca...
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Risk Engineering and Performance Guarantees in Construction Finance
Risk Engineering and Performance Guarantees in Construction Finance Construction Finance Month: Week Four | March 2026 Infrastructure doesnβt fail because funding disappears overnight. It fails when r...
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Colombia Advances Rail Revival with Villavicencio to Puerto GaitΓ‘n Corridor
Colombia Advances Rail Revival with Villavicencio to Puerto GaitΓ‘n Corridor Colombia has taken a decisive step towards reshaping its transport infrastructure with the launch of feasibility studies for...
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Regulation Is Quietly Engineering the Future of Autonomous Logistics
Regulation Is Quietly Engineering the Future of Autonomous Logistics Across Europeβs transport corridors, something fundamental is shifting. It is not being driven by flashy technology launches or bol...
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Sri Lanka Positions Graphite at the Heart of its Industrial Future
Sri Lanka Positions Graphite at the Heart of its Industrial Future Sri Lanka has taken a decisive step to reposition one of its most valuable natural resources within the global industrial supply chai...
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Colombia Strengthens Aviation Capacity With Cartagena Expansion
Colombia Strengthens Aviation Capacity With Cartagena Expansion Colombia is stepping up its aviation ambitions with a major expansion of Rafael NΓΊΓ±ez International Airport in Cartagena, a project that...
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BogotΓ‘ Doubles Down on Underground Mobility with Metro Line 2 Mega Project
BogotΓ‘ Doubles Down on Underground Mobility with Metro Line 2 Mega Project BogotΓ‘ is pressing ahead with one of Latin Americaβs most closely watched urban transport projects, reopening the internation...
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Amman Bridge Project Signals a New Era for Urban Mobility in Jordan
Amman Bridge Project Signals a New Era for Urban Mobility in Jordan Jordan is stepping into a new phase of infrastructure development, one that blends modern engineering with pragmatic economic strate...
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