Featured Articles
Featured Articles brings together the top-performing and most talked-about articles published on Highways Today. Curated by our editorial team, this collection showcases standout stories that have captured industry attention โ from groundbreaking projects and cutting-edge technologies to expert insights and global trends shaping the future of infrastructure.
Mascus at 25 and the Evolution of Used Equipment Sales
Mascus at 25 and the Evolution of Used Equipment Sales Selling a used excavator across borders was a considerably more cumbersome business when Mascus launched its first website in Helsinki in January...
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Singapore Tests a National Positioning Layer for Autonomous Machines
Singapore Tests a National Positioning Layer for Autonomous Machines Singapore already possesses one of the expensive foundations needed for large-scale machine navigation: a detailed three-dimensiona...
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Buenos Aires Takes V2X Technology Into Real-World Traffic
Buenos Aires Takes V2X Technology Into Real-World Traffic Buenos Aires has begun testing direct communication between vehicles and roadside infrastructure on live city streets, moving connected-vehicl...
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Turning Southern Africaโs Infrastructure Plans into Bankable Projects
Turning Southern Africaโs 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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Cemex Rethinks the Water Behind Concrete
Cemex Rethinks the Water Behind Concrete Concrete plants do not need drinking-quality water for every part of their operation. Cemex is putting that principle into practice at scale in Mexico, where i...
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Could We Survive Without Oil?
Could We Survive Without Oil? Humanity can plainly survive without oil. It did so for almost its entire history. The harder question is whether the industrial civilisation built during the petroleum a...
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Where Do Oil and Gas Really Come From?
Where Do Oil and Gas Really Come From? Crude oil contains an extraordinary chemical record. Within the black mixture pumped from a reservoir are molecules whose structures preserve traces of organisms...
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Construction Automation is Moving Beyond the Machine
Construction Automation is Moving Beyond the Machine More than 63,000 cubic metres of earth had to be moved to create Yorkshire Water’s new integrated constructed wetland at Dearne Reach. The ea...
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Volvo A45 Hauler Makes its Japanese Quarry Debut
Volvo A45 Hauler Makes its Japanese Quarry Debut A one-tonne increase in payload does not sound particularly dramatic on a machine already capable of carrying more than 40 tonnes. Repeated hundreds of...
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Autonomous Rollers Move into Production on Puerto Rico Airport Project
Autonomous Rollers Move into Production on Puerto Rico Airport Project Three autonomous compaction rollers are working together on the construction of a new runway at Rafael Hernรกndez International Ai...
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Develon Puts Machine Intervention and Electric Excavation to Work at steinexpo
Develon Puts Machine Intervention and Electric Excavation to Work at steinexpo Construction machinery safety systems are beginning to cross an important boundary. Cameras, radar and object detection h...
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Komatsu Pushes Excavator Development Closer to Asiaโs Jobsites
Komatsu Pushes Excavator Development Closer to Asiaโs Jobsites Komatsu is expanding its excavator range for Asian growth markets with three machines spanning the 7-tonne and 20-tonne classes, but the...
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INTERMAT 2027 Looks Beyond the Machine
INTERMAT 2027 Looks Beyond the Machine When INTERMAT returns to Paris in April 2027, some of the most consequential developments on display may be considerably less conspicuous than the machines occup...
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HD Construction Equipment and Manitou Building a Bigger Compact Machinery Business
HD Construction Equipment and Manitou Building a Bigger Compact Machinery Business HD Construction Equipment and Manitou Group have agreed to exchange compact construction equipment across their respe...
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Caterpillar is Investing in the Workforce Behind the Autonomous Machine
Caterpillar is Investing in the Workforce Behind the Autonomous Machine Caterpillar is putting $25 million behind a five-year search for new ways to train the people who will build, maintain and suppo...
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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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The Half-Life of Construction Knowledge
The Half-Life of Construction Knowledge The most valuable asset on any construction project has never appeared on a balance sheet. It is the accumulated judgement of the people who design, build and m...
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The Global Language of the Hard Hat
The Global Language of the Hard Hat Ten years ago, Highways England attempted to solve a surprisingly persistent problem on British construction sites. Contractors were using different colours of safe...
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The 12,400 Mile Highway That Refuses to Disappear
The 12,400 Mile Highway That Refuses to Disappear Ten years ago, before Highways.Today had really become Highways.Today, I published an article about one of the most extraordinary infrastructure propo...
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From Toilet Paper to Robots – How Road Crack Sealing Has Evolved
From Toilet Paper to Robots – How Road Crack Sealing Has Evolved In November 2016, Highways.Today published one of those stories that sounded too ridiculous to ignore. Road maintenance crews in...
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Xwatch Safety Tech Moves Into Fleet Specification at Select Plant Hire
Xwatch Safety Tech Moves Into Fleet Specification at Select Plant Hire Around 30 new JCB machines entering the Select Plant Hire fleet are passing through an Xwatch installation programme as part of a...
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Trump Tower Tbilisi Anchors $2 Billion Downtown Development
Trump Tower Tbilisi Anchors $2 Billion Downtown Development A 280-metre skyscraper planned beside Tbilisi’s Central Park will become the first tower in a much larger attempt to create a new comm...
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Ritchie Bros. Lines Up 1,300+ Lots for UK and Ireland Equipment Auction
Ritchie Bros. Lines Up 1,300+ Lots for UK and Ireland Auction More than 1,300 equipment lots are now listed for Ritchie Bros.’ UK and Ireland unreserved auction on 23 and 24 September, bringing...
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Topcon Takes its Geomatics Ecosystem Underground with Proceq GPR
Topcon Takes its Geomatics Ecosystem Underground with Proceq GPR Topcon Positioning Systems is extending its geomatics workflow below ground through a new collaboration with Proceq, bringing ground pe...
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When Industrial AI Can Send a Robot to Investigate
When Industrial AI Can Send a Robot to Investigate A vibration sensor on an industrial pump detects something unusual. Conventionally, that creates an alert, a work order or perhaps a message on an en...
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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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Palletised Variable Message Sign Removes the Trailer from Urban Roadworks
Palletised Variable Message Sign Removes the Trailer from Urban Roadworks Variable message signs have spent decades travelling with their own trailers. SG has now separated the two, developing a palle...
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Trimble ST30 Blurs the Line Between Optical and GNSS Surveying
Trimble ST30 Blurs the Line Between Optical and GNSS Surveying Surveyors have been combining total stations and GNSS for years, switching between the precision and vertical control of optical measurem...
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Topcon Builds the Connected Geomatics Workflow at INTERGEO 2026
Topcon Builds the Connected Geomatics Workflow at INTERGEO 2026 Topcon Positioning Systems has used INTERGEO 2026 in Munich to introduce a substantial expansion of its geomatics portfolio, spanning in...
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ADB Backs the Next Five Years of the Indonesia-Malaysia-Thailand Growth Triangle
ADB Backs the Next Five Years of the Indonesia-Malaysia-Thailand Growth Triangle More than $3.7 billion of Asian Development Bank support was benefiting areas within the Indonesia-Malaysia-Thailand Gr...
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Kia PV7 Takes the Platform Approach to Electric Commercial Vehicles
Kia PV7 Takes the Platform Approach to Electric Commercial Vehicles Kia is moving deeper into the commercial vehicle market with a 5.35-metre electric van capable of carrying up to 1,200kg, accommodat...
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Robotaxis Are Becoming an Industrial Ecosystem
Robotaxis Are Becoming an Industrial Ecosystem A driverless car carrying passengers between central Zagreb and the city’s airport might appear to be another autonomous vehicle trial. Look beneat...
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Industrial Drones Become Flying Sensor Platforms in Canada
Industrial Drones Become Flying Sensor Platforms in Canada The industrial drone is becoming less important than what hangs underneath it. Across surveying, mining, utilities and environmental monitori...
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The Hard Part of Connected Traffic is Making the Data Understand Each Other
The Hard Part of Connected Traffic is Making the Data Understand Each Other Hamburg’s traffic signals were already producing the data. The problem was making more of it useful. A proof of concep...
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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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Trans-Kalahari Railway Moves From Feasibility to the Harder Question of Finance
Trans-Kalahari Railway Moves From Feasibility to the Harder Question of Finance After more than a decade of bilateral planning, Botswana and Namibia are moving the Trans-Kalahari Railway towards procu...
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Private Finance Backs Bihar’s 336 km Greenfield Expressway Plan
Bihar Plans 336 km BuxarโBhagalpur Expressway Under DBFOT Model Bihar has approved plans for a 336 km, six-lane greenfield expressway between Buxar in the west of the state and Bhagalpur in the east,...
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US Drone Market Faces New Rules as Commercial UAV Expo Breaks Records
US Drone Market Faces New Rules as Commercial UAV Expo Breaks Records A record 3,800 commercial drone professionals gathered in Las Vegas for Commercial UAV Expo 2026 at an unusually consequential mom...
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Updated Volkswagen Caddy Rolls Off the Line in Poznaล
Updated Volkswagen Caddy Rolls Off the Line in Poznaล Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles has started production of its updated Caddy in Poznaล, Poland, extending a manufacturing programme that has produce...
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Topcon Connects the Data Behind Infrastructure Monitoring
Topcon Connects the Data Behind Infrastructure Monitoring Infrastructure monitoring rarely suffers from a shortage of measurements. A complex railway, tunnel, bridge, excavation or construction site c...
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HKX Brings Field-Installed Hydraulics to Wheel Loaders
HKX Brings Field-Installed Hydraulics to Wheel Loaders Ordering a wheel loader with auxiliary hydraulics can mean a factory lead time of 12 to 20 weeks, according to HKX. The company’s first fie...
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Dominican Republic Takes National Toll Network into its Next Digital Phase
Dominican Republic Takes National Toll Network into its Next Digital Phase The Dominican Republic is preparing to upgrade 20 toll plazas and 183 lanes under a new national deployment of Kapsch Traffic...
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Buying a Used Excavator Without Buying Someone Elseโs Problems
Buying a Used Excavator Without Buying Someone Elseโs Problems A used excavator with clean paint, reasonable hours and an attractive price can still conceal an expensive history. Worn undercarriages,...
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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 Moรญn I...
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CAREC Business Forum Targets the Next Generation of Central Asian Infrastructure
CAREC Business Forum Targets the Next Generation of Central Asian Infrastructure CAREC has mobilised about $57.9 billion for regional development since 2001, with more than 90% directed towards transp...
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Why Renewable Energy Capital Keeps Flowing to the Same Markets
Why Renewable Energy Capital Keeps Flowing to the Same Markets The world is not short of money for clean energy. Around $2.2 trillion is expected to flow into renewables, nuclear power, electricity gr...
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When Construction Sites Start Seeing Risk Before It Happens
When Construction Sites Start Seeing Risk Before It Happens A crane operator cannot see an entire construction site. At a REN+HOMES demonstration project in La Garriga, Spain, connected sensors are be...
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When the Robot Is the Easy Part
When the Robot Is the Easy Part Boston Dynamics says experience from more than 2,000 Spot robots working around the world has allowed it to develop an increasingly repeatable process for industrial de...
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Jacobs Takes MESH Energy Storage Project into UK Consenting Phase
Jacobs Takes MESH Energy Storage Project into UK Consenting Phase A proposed 55GWh energy storage development in the Irish Sea is moving deeper into the British planning and regulatory system, with Ja...
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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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