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 — from groundbreaking projects and cutting-edge technologies to expert insights and global trends shaping the future of infrastructure.
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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Foton Tunland Targets UK Pick-Up Market with Mild-Hybrid Diesel Powertrain
Foton Tunland Targets UK Pick-Up Market with Mild-Hybrid Diesel Powertrain Chinese commercial vehicle manufacturer Foton is preparing to enter the British pick-up market in early 2027 with the Tunland...
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Japan’s Nittetsu Mining Targets Autonomous Quarry Haulage by 2033
Japan’s Nittetsu Mining Targets Autonomous Quarry Haulage by 2033 Japan’s Nittetsu Mining is working towards autonomous operation of large dump trucks at its Torigatayama Quarry Complex in...
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Bentley Expands Seismic Interpretation Capabilities with Eliis Acquisition
Bentley Expands Seismic Interpretation Capabilities with Eliis Acquisition Bentley Systems’ subsurface software business, Seequent, has acquired French seismic interpretation specialist Eliis, a...
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Topcon Brings Digital Twin Technology to Vitruvius’ Rediscovered Roman Basilica
Topcon Brings Digital Twin Technology to Vitruvius’ Rediscovered Roman Basilica Nearly 2,000 years after the Roman architect Vitruvius described the basilica he designed in the ancient city of F...
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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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Hitachi Construction Machinery Prepares LANDCROS Brand for Global Launch in 2027
Hitachi Construction Machinery Prepares LANDCROS Brand for Global Launch in 2027 Hitachi Construction Machinery will become LANDCROS Corporation on 1 April 2027, completing a corporate transition that...
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America’s Railway Future Balances Freight Strength with Passenger Investment
America’s Railway Future Balances Freight Strength with Passenger Investment A new agreement between Schneider National and Norfolk Southern is bringing fresh attention to the American railway s...
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Italy’s Air Taxi Ambitions Put Vertiports and Urban Aviation Infrastructure in Focus
Italy’s Air Taxi Ambitions Put Vertiports and Urban Aviation Infrastructure in Focus Archer Aviation and ITA Airways have agreed to explore an electric air taxi network across Italy, with the pr...
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Central Asia Faces US$3.59 Billion in Landslide Exposure Across Critical Infrastructure
Central Asia Faces US$3.59 Billion in Landslide Exposure Across Critical Infrastructure Roads account for more than US$3 billion of the infrastructure potentially exposed to landslides across Central...
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RSP UK Celebrates 10 Years of Specialist Excavation Equipment
RSP UK Celebrates 10 Years of Specialist Excavation Equipment RSP UK Suction Excavators has marked its tenth anniversary with the retirement of industry veteran Nigel Gardener and a change in board in...
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From Mapping Assets to Managing Operations as Mobile GIS Evolves
From Mapping Assets to Managing Operations as Mobile GIS Evolves A highway maintenance technician inspecting a damaged culvert may have immediate access to its location, previous inspection records an...
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PACCAR Profits Rise 44% as Parts Revenue Hits Record High
PACCAR Profits Rise 44% as Parts Revenue Hits Record High PACCAR reported a 44% increase in net income for the third quarter of 2026, with stronger truck margins, record aftermarket parts revenue and...
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From Simulation to Physical Robots: China’s Push for General-Purpose Machine Intelligence
From Simulation to Physical Robots: China’s Push for General-Purpose Machine Intelligence More than 1,800 development teams from 13 countries have entered a Chinese robotics competition designed...
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Beyond Heavy Iron – Reinventing the Construction Machine
Beyond Heavy Iron – Reinventing the Construction Machine Electric powertrains, hydrogen engines, fuel cells, robotics and machine intelligence are opening up new possibilities for construction e...
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Archer Aviation Plans Three Texas Air Taxi Networks
Archer Aviation Plans Three Texas Air Taxi Networks Archer Aviation has outlined plans for three electric air taxi networks across Texas, connecting major airports, business districts and leisure dest...
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NVIDIA and Stellantis Advance Robotaxi Plans Across Europe and Central Asia
NVIDIA and Stellantis Advance Robotaxi Plans Across Europe and Central Asia Three autonomous mobility partnerships announced in October 2026 have brought together vehicle manufacturers, artificial int...
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Procore Brings Voice-Controlled AI to Construction Sites with Meta Glasses Trials
Procore Brings Voice-Controlled AI to Construction Sites with Meta Glasses Trials Construction supervisors can now question project drawings, specifications and site records without searching through...
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Derq to Test AI-Powered Crash Prevention at US Intersections
Derq to Test AI-Powered Crash Prevention at US Intersections The US Department of Transportation (USDOT) has selected intelligent transportation technology company Derq to develop and test an AI-power...
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Baku Metro Secures $302 Million for Signalling and Digital Modernisation
Baku Metro Secures $302 Million for Signalling and Digital Modernisation Baku Metro is preparing to add approximately 20 kilometres of tunnels, nine stations and 300 additional metro cars to its netwo...
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Vietnam’s Chu Lai Airport Expansion Plan Targets Major Aviation and Logistics Hub
Vietnam’s Chu Lai Airport Expansion Plan Targets Major Aviation and Logistics Hub Da Nang has requested authority to develop Chu Lai International Airport through a public-private partnership (P...
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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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Trimble Expands 3D Excavator Grade Control with Dual DA2 GNSS Receivers
Trimble Expands 3D Excavator Grade Control with Dual DA2 GNSS Receivers Trimble is introducing a lower-cost configuration of its Earthworks 3D grade control system for excavators, using two DA2 GNSS r...
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The Economics of Moving Earth
The Economics of Moving Earth Why Construction Machinery Productivity Depends on Much More Than the Machine Two identical hydraulic excavators are working on separate earthmoving projects. Both have t...
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Flying Cars Are Coming – But Who Will Build the Roads in the Sky?
Flying Cars Are Coming – But Who Will Build the Roads in the Sky? On 15 October 2026, Tesla demonstrated a new generation of Roadster at SpaceX’s test facility in McGregor, Texas, using hi...
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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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When Cities Swallow the Infrastructure They Depend On
When Cities Swallow the Infrastructure They Depend On From Vietnam’s roadside settlements to Britain’s industrial towns, airports, shipyards and wastewater treatment plants, the infrastruc...
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When Does an Airport Turn into a Giant Car Park?
When Does an Airport Turn into a Giant Car Park? Somewhere in the economics of modern aviation, the humble parking space became an extraordinarily valuable piece of infrastructure. Airports are among...
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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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Caterpillar Introduces Three Compact Excavators Built for Different Demands
Caterpillar Introduces Three Compact Excavators Built for Different Demands Caterpillar has introduced three compact hydraulic excavators designed around the different demands of restricted access, ma...
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John Deere Expands Compact Grading with SmartGrade Box Blades
John Deere Expands Compact Grading with SmartGrade Box Blades John Deere has introduced two SmartGrade box blade attachments for its 333 and 335 P-Tier compact track loaders, bringing integrated grade...
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Bouygues Construction Opens Scale One to Test Innovation Under Real Site Conditions
Bouygues Construction Opens Scale One to Test Innovation Under Real Site Conditions Bouygues Construction has opened a 2,500 m² innovation facility at Chilly-Mazarin, south of Paris, where new materia...
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Volvo VNX Brings Heavy-Haul Capability to North America’s Construction Fleets
Volvo VNX Brings Heavy-Haul Capability to North America’s Construction Fleets Volvo Trucks has introduced the all-new Volvo VNX for North American construction, vocational and heavy-haul operati...
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Ritchie Bros. Expands Orlando Heavy Equipment Auction to Six Days for 2027
Ritchie Bros. Expands Orlando Heavy Equipment Auction to Six Days for 2027 Ritchie Bros. will extend its annual February Orlando heavy equipment auction from five to six days in 2027, following an eve...
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Rowan Engineers Develop Reverse-Time Imaging for 3D Printed Concrete
Rowan Engineers Develop Reverse-Time Imaging for 3D Printed Concrete A 3D concrete printer can build a wall layer by layer, but every new deposit adds weight to material that has yet to develop its fu...
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SHOWA Introduces Recycled Microfibre Gloves for Industrial Hand Protection
SHOWA Introduces Recycled Microfibre Gloves for Industrial Hand Protection Protective glove manufacturer SHOWA has introduced the RECYCLED MFT PRO GP381E, incorporating more than 80% recycled fibres i...
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The Humanoid Economy: From Physical AI to Industrial Reality
The Humanoid Economy: From Physical AI to Industrial Reality At BMW’s Spartanburg plant in South Carolina, a humanoid robot spent approximately 1,250 operating hours handling sheet metal compone...
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Seequent Brings AI Geological Analysis to Drill Core Photography
Seequent Brings AI Geological Analysis to Drill Core Photography Six hundred metres of drill core photography, analysed in two minutes. That is the processing speed Seequent reports for its new AI-pow...
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Colorbiotics GEM Vision Brings Laser Measurement to Aggregate Conveyors
Colorbiotics GEM Vision Brings Laser Measurement to Aggregate Conveyors Measuring the volume of material travelling along a conveyor belt sounds straightforward until the flow becomes irregular. Mulch...
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Why Construction Machines Look the Way They Do
Why Construction Machines Look the Way They Do In 1885, an American road inspector named J.D. Adams developed an improvement to the horse-drawn grader that remains recognisable on modern machines. Rat...
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Doka 360 Brings Formwork Logistics and Material Management into One Digital Platform
Doka 360 Brings Formwork Logistics and Material Management into One Digital Platform Keeping track of formwork on a busy construction project can be surprisingly complicated. Panels, props and support...
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Bathymetric Lidar Reveals the Hidden Landscape of Utah’s Great Salt Lake
Bathymetric Lidar Reveals the Hidden Landscape of Utah’s Great Salt Lake Beneath the shallow, increasingly unpredictable waters of Utah’s Great Salt Lake lies a landscape that scientists a...
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RB Global Expects Stronger Marketplace Trading as Equipment Sales Grow
RB Global Expects Stronger Marketplace Trading as Equipment Sales Grow Billions of dollars’ worth of construction machinery, commercial vehicles and industrial assets change hands through RB Glo...
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Intel Joins International Road Federation as AI Moves into Road Infrastructure
Intel Joins International Road Federation as AI Moves into Road Infrastructure Intel has joined the International Road Federation (IRF Global), bringing one of the world’s leading semiconductor...
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Making Hand Protection Work for Road Crews
Making Hand Protection Work for Road Crews Highway construction brings together a wide range of activities, often within the same working day. A crew installing steel safety barriers may also be handl...
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Bentley’s 2026 Infrastructure Awards Spotlight Digital Engineering Around the World
Bentley’s 2026 Infrastructure Awards Spotlight Digital Engineering Around the World More than 300 infrastructure projects from 53 countries were nominated for Bentley Systems‘ 2026 Year in...
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KGM Introduces Two-Seat Musso Commercial Pick-Up Following UK Tax Changes
KGM Introduces Two-Seat Musso Commercial Pick-Up Following UK Tax Changes KGM Motors UK has introduced two-seat commercial versions of its Musso Rebel and Saracen pick-ups, offering construction busin...
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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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From Tokyo to Ulaanbaatar: 10 Infrastructure Projects to Watch Across East Asia
From Tokyo to Ulaanbaatar: 10 Infrastructure Projects to Watch Across East Asia Beneath central Tokyo, a heavily used section of urban expressway is being rebuilt while the transport system around it...
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From the Himalayas to the Yangtze: 10 Infrastructure Projects to Watch Across China
From the Himalayas to the Yangtze: 10 Infrastructure Projects to Watch Across China On the lower reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo, construction has begun on a hydropower project expected to cost around R...
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