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 β from groundbreaking projects and cutting-edge technologies to expert insights and global trends shaping the future of infrastructure.
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 Chileβs Mining Sector Through Strategic Partnership
Xwatch Expands into Chileβs 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 Miovisionβs AI Optimisation Platform
Teaching Traffic Signals to Think with Miovisionβs 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 Helsinkiβs Landmark Kruunuvuori Bridge
Scaling New Heights with Liebherr on Helsinkiβs Landmark Kruunuvuori Bridge The construction of major bridge infrastructure often captures attention through its scale, engineering ambition and long-te...
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Cleaning Up Highway Runoff and Stormwater Pollution
Cleaning Up Highway Runoff and Stormwater Pollution Road networks are among the most visible pieces of public infrastructure, yet one of their most significant environmental impacts often goes unnotic...
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JCB to Showcase Their Largest Ever X Series Excavator at Hillhead
JCB to Showcase Their Largest Ever X Series Excavator at Hillhead The global quarrying, aggregates and recycling sectors continue to face a familiar challenge: producing more material with fewer opera...
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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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John Deere Pushes Wheel Loader Efficiency Forward with Electrified X-Tier
John Deere Pushes Wheel Loader Efficiency Forward with Electrified X-Tier The race to improve productivity in quarrying, mining, bulk materials handling and heavy construction has increasingly shifted...
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Building the Workforce for Tomorrow with Trimble and SkillsUSAΒ
Building the Workforce for Tomorrow with Trimble and SkillsUSA The construction industry is facing a challenge that extends far beyond technology, sustainability or project delivery. Across the United...
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Western Cape Deploys Bentley Systems AI Road Intelligence
Western Cape Deploys Bentley Systems AI Road Intelligence The Western Cape Government has taken a significant step toward modernising road asset management by deploying AI-powered roadway monitoring t...
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Rio Tinto Celebrates 60 Years and 8 Billion Tonnes of Pilbara Iron Ore Exports
Rio Tinto Celebrates 60 Years and 8 Billion Tonnes of Pilbara Iron Ore Exports For six decades, the iron ore fields of Western Australiaβs Pilbara region have quietly helped shape the modern world. Fr...
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Hitachi Drives Dealer Digitalisation with LANDCROS Sales Navigator
Hitachi Drives Dealer Digitalisation with LANDCROS Sales Navigator Construction equipment manufacturers have spent years digitising machines, fleets and worksites. Yet across large parts of the global...
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TRL Takes the Wheel for a New Era of AI Driven Road Condition Monitoring
TRL Takes the Wheel for a New Era of AI Driven Road Condition Monitoring Englandβs highway authorities are entering a major transition in how road condition data is gathered, verified and ultimately u...
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Melbourne Modernises EastLink With Next Generation Tolling Technology
Melbourne Modernises EastLink With Next Generation Tolling Technology Melbourneβs EastLink tollway is preparing for a substantial technology overhaul as Australiaβs urban transport infrastructure cont...
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Panasonic Tough Command Reshaping Connected Fleet Intelligence
Panasonic Tough Command Reshaping Connected Fleet Intelligence Fleet operations across construction, utilities, emergency response and transport are becoming increasingly data-driven, yet many organis...
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Scotland Expands Trenchless Capabilities with First GRUNDODRILL 28N Plus
Scotland Expands Trenchless Capabilities with First GRUNDODRILL 28N Plus Across the UKβs infrastructure sector, trenchless technology is moving steadily from specialist utility work into a critical de...
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Reykjavik Building a Smarter Mobility Future with Yunex Traffic
Reykjavik Building a Smarter Mobility Future with Yunex Traffic Urban traffic management rarely attracts international attention unless something goes badly wrong. Congestion crises, infrastructure fa...
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Herrenknecht Excavating New Energy Corridor Beneath the Thames
Herrenknecht Excavating New Energy Corridor Beneath the Thames Britainβs electricity network is entering one of the most significant phases of expansion since the post-war era, and much of the work is...
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Cars That Read the Road Could Transform Infrastructure Management
Cars That Read the Road Could Transform Infrastructure Management Road infrastructure is entering a new phase where vehicles are no longer simply users of the network but active contributors to how ro...
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South Africaβs Construction Market Gains Momentum as Big 5 Construct Returns
South Africaβs Construction Market Gains Momentum as Big 5 Construct Returns South Africaβs construction industry is entering another pivotal period of transition. Large-scale infrastructure delivery...
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Smarter drilling and piling: how machine guidance is reducing risk and rework
Smarter drilling and piling: how machine guidance is reducing risk and rework With the latest S&P Global UK Construction PMI showing activity contracting in March, and input cost inflation rising...
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IPAF Launches Global Push to Improve MEWP Inspection Standards
IPAF Launches Global Push to Improve MEWP Inspection Standards Working at height remains one of the construction industryβs most tightly regulated and safety-critical activities, yet mechanical failur...
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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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Crete Emerging as Europeβs Next Space Technology Frontier
Crete Emerging as Europeβs Next Space Technology Frontier For decades, Crete has been known globally for tourism, archaeology and Mediterranean culture. Now, however, the Greek island is quietly posit...
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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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Philippines Pushes Ahead with Panay Expressway PPP Corridor
Philippines Pushes Ahead with Panay Expressway PPP Corridor The Philippines is pressing ahead with plans for one of the most ambitious transport infrastructure schemes ever proposed in the Western Vis...
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Grand Cayman Airport Accelerates Expansion with PPP Strategy
Grand Cayman Airport Accelerates Expansion with PPP Strategy Grand Cayman is positioning itself for a significant expansion in private and business aviation infrastructure as the Cayman Islands Airpor...
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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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Intel and McLaren Shift Formula 1 into the AI Driven Computing Era
Intel and McLaren Shift Formula 1 into the AI Driven Computing Era Formula 1 has always been a technological arms race disguised as a motorsport championship. Beneath the glamour, sponsorships and glo...
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Europe Accelerates Bosnia and Herzegovina Road Modernisation Drive
Europe Accelerates Bosnia and Herzegovina Road Modernisation Drive Bosnia and Herzegovinaβs ageing and fragmented road network is moving closer to a long-awaited overhaul following the launch of a maj...
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Develon to Raise the Bar for Smart Excavators at Hillhead
Develon to Raise the Bar for Smart Excavators at Hillhead The arrival of Develonβs new Series 9 crawler excavators at Hillhead 2026 signals more than another product launch in the heavy equipment cale...
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MAJOR to Bring Smarter Screening Technology to Hillhead 2026
MAJOR to Bring Smarter Screening Technology to Hillhead 2026 The pressure on Europeβs quarrying and mining sectors isnβt easing anytime soon. Aggregate producers are being squeezed from every angle as...
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SteelPhalt Sets New Benchmark for Low Carbon Asphalt Transparency
SteelPhalt Sets New Benchmark for Low Carbon Asphalt Transparency For decades, sustainability claims in the road construction sector have often rested on broad corporate targets, selective project cas...
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VINCI Secures Landmark HS2 Contract to Build Birminghamβs Rail Operations Hub
VINCI Secures Landmark HS2 Contract to Build Birminghamβs Rail Operations Hub Britainβs ambitious high-speed rail ambitions have received another significant boost as VINCI, through its subsidiary Tay...
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Toyota Reinvents Compact Off Roading with the New Land Cruiser FJ
Toyota Reinvents Compact Off Roading with the New Land Cruiser FJ For decades, the Toyota Motor Corporation Land Cruiser has occupied a unique place in the global automotive and infrastructure landsca...
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Abu Dhabi Launches Middle Eastβs First Adaptive Ramp Metering Network
Abu Dhabi Launches Middle Eastβs First Adaptive Ramp Metering Network Abu Dhabi has taken a significant step in the evolution of intelligent transport systems with the deployment of the Middle Eastβs...
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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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Remote Controlled Dozers Accelerate Gold Mine Recovery in Canada
Remote Controlled Dozers Accelerate Gold Mine Recovery in Canada Remote and semi-autonomous equipment has been steadily reshaping the mining sector for more than a decade, but the pressure to deploy t...
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JCB Hydromax Chases Hydrogen Glory on the Bonneville Salt Flats
JCB Hydromax Chases Hydrogen Glory on the Bonneville Salt Flats For decades, the global construction equipment sector has been associated with diesel power, heavy machinery and hard-working engines de...
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