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.
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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Volvo Construction Equipment Turning Strategy Into Steel At Volvo Days 2026
Volvo Construction Equipment Turning Strategy Into Steel At Volvo Days 2026 There are worse ways to start a working week than watching a fleet of Volvo excavators and wheel loaders dance across a demo...
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Volvo Construction Equipment’s A50 Articulated Hauler a Red Dot Award
Volvo Construction Equipment’s A50 Articulated Hauler a Red Dot Award When a German design jury hands out a Red Dot, it tends to reward the things buyers actually notice: the sweep of a surface,...
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Volvo Plugs the EWR150 Electric Wheeled Excavator into our Zero Emission Future
Volvo Plugs the EWR150 Electric Wheeled Excavator into our Zero Emission Future Volvo Construction Equipment has put its first battery electric wheeled excavator on sale, and it’s Europe that ge...
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Volvo Turns their Wheel Loaders into Legal Weighbridges
Volvo Turns their Wheel Loaders into Legal Weighbridges Volvo Construction Equipment has reworked one of the oldest routines on a quarry or aggregates site, and it’s done so by moving the weighi...
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Inside Volvo Construction Equipment’s Connected Worksite
Inside Volvo Construction Equipment’s Connected Worksite For fifty-five years, Volvo Construction Equipment has used its Volvo Days showcase in Eskilstuna, Sweden, to roll out fresh iron and let...
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The Quarry is Turning Silent as VolvoCE Electrifies its Articulated Hauler Trucks
The Quarry is Turning Silent as VolvoCE Electrifies its Articulated Hauler Trucks There’s a particular smell to a Swedish forest in early summer, all warm pine and damp earth, and at Volvo Days...
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Poland, Netherlands and Indonesia Book Their Place at VolvoCE Masters World Final
Poland, Netherlands and Indonesia Book Their Place at VolvoCE Masters World Final The line-up for one of the construction equipment industry’s most demanding skills contests is coming into focus...
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Volvo Pushes Electric Trucking Past The 700 Kilometre Mark
Volvo Pushes Electric Trucking Past The 700 Kilometre Mark Volvo Trucks has lifted the ceiling on how far a heavy electric truck can run between charges, unveiling an FH Aero Electric with extended ra...
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VolvoCE Celebrates the First SD120 Compactor in Thailand
VolvoCE Celebrates the First SD120 Compactor in Thailand When Volvo Construction Equipment handed over its first New Generation SD120 soil compactor in Thailand, the machine itself was only half the s...
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VolvoCE and Hitachi Energy Team Up to Power Zero Emission Construction Sites
VolvoCE and Hitachi Energy Team Up to Power Zero Emission Construction Sites Putting a battery into an excavator is the easy part. Keeping a yard full of electric machines charged, scheduled and worki...
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Ouster Brings Native Colour Lidar to City Traffic Corridors
Ouster Brings Native Colour Lidar to City Traffic Corridors Roadside detection has long leaned on a patchwork of cameras, radar units and inductive loops buried in the tarmac, each handling a slice of...
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Taming The Power Surge Behind The AI Data Centre Boom
Taming The Power Surge Behind The AI Data Centre Boom The figures behind the artificial intelligence boom have a habit of creeping up on people. In 2023, data centres swallowed roughly 4.4 per cent of...
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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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Snap-on Bets $100m on the Data That Keeps Heavy Equipment Running
Snap-on Bets $100m on the Data That Keeps Heavy Equipment Running Snap-on has rarely been a company that chases headlines, so a hundred million dollar cheque written in early June 2026 says plenty abo...
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Architect Equity Bets on Circular Warehousing with Latest Acquisition
Architect Equity Bets on Circular Warehousing with Latest Acquisition A Los Angeles buyout firm has just bought one of the quieter cogs in the machine that keeps online retail moving. Architect Equity...
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Columbia River Dam Spillways Brace For A Generational Rebuild
Columbia River Dam Spillways Brace For A Generational Rebuild Chelan County Public Utility District has handed Tetra Tech the lead design role on a multi-year programme to rebuild the spillways at two...
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New Jersey Turns Its World Cup Highways Into A Living Map
New Jersey Turns Its World Cup Highways Into A Living Map With the 2026 FIFA World Cup about to kick off across North America this week, the roads feeding into New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium have...
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Lightship Drives Job Site Power With PowerSled
Lightship Drives Job Site Power With PowerSled The default soundtrack of a construction site has, for decades, been the low rumble of a diesel generator. Walk onto almost any job site at dawn and you...
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Montréal Bets on AI to See Crashes Coming Before They Happen
Montréal Bets on AI to See Crashes Coming Before They Happen Montréal has put artificial intelligence at the centre of how it watches over its streets, switching on Derq’s INSIGHT platform acros...
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Canada Starts Mapping the Heat Beneath its Feet as Geothermal Money Pours in
Canada Starts Mapping the Heat Beneath its Feet as Geothermal Money Pours in Canada sits on one of the world’s richest stores of underground heat, yet it generates barely enough geothermal elect...
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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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Multilateral Investment to Rebuild Entre Ríos Freight Roads in Argentina
Multilateral Investment to Rebuild Entre Ríos Freight Roads in Argentina The Inter-American Development Bank has cleared $280 million to overhaul provincial roads and urban access routes across Argent...
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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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ADF Invests $60m to Reshape West African Benin-Togo Trade
ADF Invests $60m to Reshape West African Benin-Togo Trade When development bankers in Abidjan signed off on a loan for a stretch of road most of the world has never heard of, they were betting on some...
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The Living Infrastructure Cooling Nearly 9,000 Cities Worldwide
The Living Infrastructure Cooling Nearly 9,000 Cities Worldwide City trees are pulling double duty as infrastructure, and a sweeping new global study has finally put a number on how much heavy lifting...
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AIIB Invests in the Philippines with $300m Port Finance
AIIB Invests in the Philippines with $300m Port Finance When the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank put its name to a USD300 million loan for International Container Terminal Services Inc, the headl...
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SewerAI Wins Backing to Tackle Trillion Dollar Infrastructure Gap
SewerAI Wins Backing to Tackle Trillion Dollar Infrastructure Gap A funding round that closed in early June has thrown a spotlight on one of the least glamorous corners of the built environment, the p...
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Newfoundland Rock Now Underpins Tampa’s Growth
Newfoundland Rock Now Underpins Tampa’s Growth Florida builds fast, and it builds with rock it largely can’t dig out of its own ground. That awkward truth sat quietly behind a ribbon-cutti...
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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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Rethinking Road Intelligence with Aeva CityOS
Rethinking Road Intelligence with Aeva CityOS There was a time when the role of transport infrastructure appeared relatively straightforward. Roads carried vehicles, signals regulated movement and int...
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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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Graphene Takes the Next Step Towards More Sustainable Industrial Innovation
Graphene Takes the Next Step Towards More Sustainable Industrial Innovation For much of the past two decades, graphene has been presented as one of the most promising developments in modern materials...
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Inside Jacobs Global Strategy for the Future of Infrastructure
Inside Jacobs Global Strategy for the Future of Infrastructure For decades, infrastructure programmes were largely judged by physical outputs. Kilometres of transmission lines, metres of seawall, trea...
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Harbor Freight Tools for Schools Invests in the Future Infrastructure Workforce
Harbor Freight Tools for Schools Invests in the Future Infrastructure Workforce For years, the conversation around preparing young people for work has tended to orbit university pathways, coding skill...
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INRIX Predictive Intelligence Reshapes Parking and Urban Mobility
INRIX Predictive Intelligence Reshapes Parking and Urban Mobility For years, parking sat in an awkward corner of transport planning. Roads expanded, junctions were redesigned, public transport network...
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Cold Mix Technology Paving the Way for Greener Road Maintenance
Cold Mix Technology Paving the Way for Greener Road Maintenance Road agencies worldwide are under mounting pressure to extend pavement life, reduce maintenance costs, minimise traffic disruption, and...
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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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Hyundai Expands Scottish Ambitions Through Partnership with Hodge Plant
Hyundai Expands Scottish Ambitions Through Partnership with Hodge Plant Scotland’s construction equipment market is entering a new phase of competition as Hyundai Construction Equipment strength...
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Turning Machine Data Into Construction Intelligence with MyLiebherr
Turning Machine Data Into Construction Intelligence with MyLiebherr The construction and heavy equipment sectors have spent years talking about digital transformation. Yet for many fleet owners, contr...
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Amey Sets the Standard for Safety Excellence with RoSPA Gold Success
Amey Sets the Standard for Safety Excellence with RoSPA Gold Success For organisations responsible for maintaining critical infrastructure, delivering engineering services and managing complex public...
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Rethinking Speed Limits with AI for Safer Roads
Rethinking Speed Limits with AI for Safer Roads Road safety has long focused on one central question: are drivers obeying the speed limit? Yet a growing body of evidence suggests policymakers may need...
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Designing the Machines That Build the Future with Yanmar
Designing the Machines That Build the Future with Yanmar For much of industrial history, machinery design has been judged by performance, durability and engineering ingenuity. Yet as industries confro...
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Xwatch Expands into Chile’s Mining Sector Through Strategic Partnership
Xwatch Expands into Chile’s Mining Sector Through Strategic Partnership Mining companies around the world continue to face mounting pressure to improve safety, productivity and operational consistency...
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Building the Roads, Rails and Runways of Tomorrow
Building the Roads, Rails and Runways of Tomorrow A new analysis from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) has delivered a stark message for policymakers, investors and infrastructure planners. Even as de...
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Hyperloop Moves Closer to Reality as Swisspod Sets New Speed Benchmark
Hyperloop Moves Closer to Reality as Swisspod Sets New Speed Benchmark The race to transform long-distance transport is entering a new phase. While high-speed rail networks continue expanding across A...
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XPENG Introduces First Mass Produced Robotaxi Platform
XPENG Introduces First Mass Produced Robotaxi Platform Autonomous mobility has spent the better part of a decade trapped between bold promises and limited pilot programmes. Cities around the world hav...
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Teaching Traffic Signals to Think with Miovision’s AI Optimisation Platform
Teaching Traffic Signals to Think with Miovision’s AI Optimisation Platform Urban mobility is changing faster than many traffic management systems can keep pace with. New housing developments, changin...
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Bobcat to Showcase New Compact Loader and Smart Mini Excavators at Hillhead
Bobcat to Showcase New Compact Loader and Smart Mini Excavators at Hillhead The UK’s construction and infrastructure sectors are under increasing pressure to deliver more projects in less time,...
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Scaling New Heights with Liebherr on Helsinki’s Landmark Kruunuvuori Bridge
Scaling New Heights with Liebherr on Helsinki’s Landmark Kruunuvuori Bridge The construction of major bridge infrastructure often captures attention through its scale, engineering ambition and long-te...
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