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.
Carbon-Fibre Dust Puts Electric Compressor Design to the Test at Hexcel
Carbon-Fibre Dust Puts Electric Compressor Design to the Test at Hexcel Electrifying industrial equipment becomes a rather different engineering proposition when conductive carbon-fibre dust is circul...
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Bentley Builds on Cesium with New Philadelphia Technology Hub
Bentley Builds on Cesium with New Philadelphia Technology Hub Bentley Systems has opened a new technology hub in Philadelphia’s Center City, bringing its infrastructure engineering software oper...
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Command Alkon Turns 50 as Heavy Materials Software Moves to the Cloud
Command Alkon Turns 50 as Heavy Materials Software Moves to the Cloud Five employees started building software for the ready-mix concrete industry in 1976. Fifty years later, Command Alkon says its sy...
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Spotter AI Brings Intelligence Into Everyday Trucking Operations
Spotter AI Brings Intelligence Into Everyday Trucking Operations A dispatcher deciding where to send an empty truck, a recruiter trying to fill a driving position and a claims manager chasing a missin...
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Volvo Electric Machines Put Nuremberg’s Zero-Emission Tender to the Test
Volvo Electric Machines Put Nuremberg’s Zero-Emission Tender to the Test Nuremberg has turned the demolition of a former nursery into an unusual test of municipal procurement. The German city re...
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Senegal Expands Agricultural Road Network with $140m Financing
Senegal Expands Agricultural Road Network with $140m Financing Senegal is preparing another 275 kilometres of paved roads and laterite tracks through two agricultural corridors in the east of the coun...
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Magnetic Thermal Textile Targets Overheated Railway Tracks
Magnetic Thermal Textile Targets Overheated Railway Tracks Railway engineers in South Korea have demonstrated a removable thermal barrier that KRRI says reduced summer rail temperatures by as much as...
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Sovereign AI Brings Intelligence Back Inside Critical Infrastructure
Sovereign AI Brings Intelligence Back Inside Critical Infrastructure Artificial intelligence is beginning to acquire something it largely avoided during the first wave of generative AI adoption: a phy...
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Forty Years of Cleaner Air Have Changed How Infrastructure Corrodes
Forty Years of Cleaner Air Have Changed How Infrastructure Corrodes At an industrial corrosion test site in Kopisty in the Czech Republic, researchers could scrape half a kilogram of rust from a singl...
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Ouster and GeoCue Push Drone LiDAR Further Into Infrastructure Mapping
Ouster and GeoCue Push Drone LiDAR Further Into Infrastructure Mapping Drone surveying of power lines, transport corridors and major infrastructure is becoming an increasingly demanding sensing proble...
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The Construction Marketing Playbook Has Changed
The Construction Marketing Playbook Has Changed New tools are giving ambitious specialist companies greater reach, intelligence and freedom to experiment, but established brands still begin with formi...
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Construction AI Goes Deeper as Togal.AI Targets Trade-Specific Estimating
Construction AI Goes Deeper as Togal.AI Targets Trade-Specific Estimating Artificial intelligence has already become reasonably good at finding things on construction drawings. The more difficult prob...
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Raleigh Turns Drones and GeoAI into a Living Digital Twin of the City
Raleigh Turns Drones and GeoAI into a Living Digital Twin of the City Raleigh is building a digital representation of the city that is designed to change whenever the city itself does. Drone surveys o...
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HKX Acquisition Takes MPS into Construction Equipment
HKX Acquisition Takes MPS into Construction Equipment Multi Parts Solutions has entered the construction equipment sector through the acquisition of HKX, bringing a specialist in excavator hydraulics...
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MAJOR Takes High-Vibration Screening into the Basalt Quarry at steinexpo
MAJOR Takes High-Vibration Screening into the Basalt Quarry at steinexpo Screening equipment rarely receives the attention given to crushers, excavators and loaders in a quarry, yet comparatively smal...
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Volvo R70 Rigid Hauler Makes European Debut at Bettenfeld Quarry
Volvo R70 Rigid Hauler Makes European Debut at Bettenfeld Quarry Europe’s first Stage V Volvo R70 rigid hauler has entered service at SHF Steinbruchbetriebe’s Bettenfeld Quarry in Germany,...
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Satellite Tolling Turns the European Road Network into a Digital Charging Platform
Satellite Tolling Turns the European Road Network into a Digital Charging Platform The Netherlands changed the way heavy goods vehicles pay to use its roads on 1 July 2026. The Eurovignette disappeare...
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Making Existing Diesel Trucks Compatible with Electric Highways
Making Existing Diesel Trucks Compatible with Electric Highways Europe has spent years proving that heavy trucks can draw power from overhead lines while travelling at motorway speeds. Germany’s...
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Mountain Bike Trail Building Turns to On-Site Material Processing
Mountain Bike Trail Building Turns to On-Site Material Processing Mountain bike trails may be built for recreation, but beneath the berms, rollers and carefully shaped corners sits a surprisingly conv...
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Seven Liebherr Cranes Coordinate Ulmβs B10 Bridge Reconstruction
Seven Liebherr Cranes Coordinate Ulmβs B10 Bridge Reconstruction Replacing a major road bridge above an operating railway is as much a problem of space and logistics as it is one of lifting capacity....
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Paving Expo 2026 Arrives as Brazil Accelerates Highway Investment
Paving Expo 2026 Arrives as Brazil Accelerates Highway Investment Brazil enters Paving Expo 2026 with a rather different road infrastructure market from the one exhibitors were addressing only a few y...
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Africaβs Carbon Markets Move from Policy to Transactions
Africaβs Carbon Markets Move from Policy to Transactions Africa’s carbon market debate is beginning to move beyond whether the continent can become a significant supplier of carbon credits. The...
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Inside Georgia’s Work to Secure the Connected Highway
Inside Georgia’s Work to Secure the Connected Highway A remotely operated gate controlling access to an express lane looks like a piece of highway equipment. Behind it, however, sits something i...
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OβHare Flyer Plans 15-Minute Chicago Airport Express on Existing Rail Corridors
OβHare Flyer Plans 15-Minute Chicago Airport Express on Existing Rail Corridors Chicago has spent more than two decades trying to find a convincing way of getting passengers between its downtown and O...
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Ritchie Bros. Takes Heavy Equipment Bidding Fully Mobile
Ritchie Bros. Takes Heavy Equipment Bidding Fully Mobile Buying a used excavator, truck or wheel loader at auction no longer necessarily requires a buyer to stop what they are doing, open a laptop and...
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When Construction Starts Learning
When Construction Starts Learning An excavator working to a 3D model can leave behind far more than the finished formation. Machine control records where it worked, while telematics can provide anothe...
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Mastenbroek Refines 20/15 Drainage Trencher for 2026
Mastenbroek Refines 20/15 Drainage Trencher for 2026 A machine first introduced in 1981 might seem an unlikely place to look for equipment development, but Mastenbroek’s latest 20/15 drainage tr...
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Used Equipment Supply Tightens as European Buyer Demand Accelerates
Used Equipment Supply Tightens as European Buyer Demand Accelerates Demand for used tractor units across Europe rose 72% year-on-year during the second quarter of 2026 while the number advertised for...
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Liebherr Brings Electrified Quarrying and Heavy Machinery to steinexpo
Liebherr Brings Electrified Quarrying and Heavy Machinery to steinexpo A 130-tonne electric mining excavator connected directly to the grid will sit alongside a 564 kWh mobile battery system when Lieb...
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How Drive-by-Wire Is Reshaping Autonomous Machine Architecture
How Drive-by-Wire Is Reshaping Autonomous Machine Architecture The international rulebook for fully automated vehicles acquired considerably more substance in June 2026 when the UNECE World Forum for...
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Volvo EC400 Hybrid Cuts Fuel Use by 30% at Clariant Bentonite Mines
Volvo EC400 Hybrid Excavator Cuts Fuel Use by 30% at Clariant Bentonite Mines At Clariant’s bentonite pits in Lower Bavaria, a Volvo EC400 Hybrid excavator has reduced fuel consumption by around...
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Turning Drone Inspections into a Long-Term Memory for Bridges
Turning Drone Inspections into a Long-Term Memory for Bridges Bridge inspection has always produced a great deal of data and very little memory. Every routine survey captures cracks, spalling and wate...
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First USA Built Volvo Excavators Signal a Shift Towards Regional Manufacturing
First USA Built Volvo Excavators Signal a Shift Towards Regional Manufacturing The first excavators and large wheel loaders assembled on American soil by Volvo Construction Equipment have begun reachi...
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Bentleyβs YII 2026 Finalists Reveal the Next Stage of Digital Infrastructure
Bentleyβs YII 2026 Finalists Reveal the Next Stage of Digital Infrastructure A shortlist is rarely read as a market indicator, yet the field Bentley Systems has just named for its 2026 Year in Infrast...
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DEVELON Expands Compact Equipment Strategy with DEF-Free Track Loaders
DEVELON Expands Compact Equipment Strategy with DEF-Free Track Loaders DEVELON’s decision to build two compact track loaders that need no diesel exhaust fluid reads, at first glance, like a mode...
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SPH Drone Camp Brings the Full Survey Workflow into the Field
SPH Drone Camp Brings the Full Survey Workflow into the Field The most expensive thing on any construction site is often the thing nobody can see. Buried cables, forgotten pipework, unexploded ordnanc...
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From Belgrade to Chicago: Spotter AI Targets the Networks Behind US Freight
From Belgrade to Chicago: Spotter AI Targets the Networks Behind US Freight A single billboard at an airport rarely counts as industry news, yet the placement Spotter AI has chosen for its first outdo...
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The Connected Jobsite Finds its Voice with PoC, Satellite and 5G On Site
The Connected Jobsite Finds its Voice with PoC, Satellite and 5G On Site For most of its working life the professional two-way radio has been sold as a piece of hardware defined by a single number: ra...
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Building the Invisible Jobsite
Building the Invisible Jobsite How the Connective Tissue Between Systems Became Construction’s Real Advantage Picture a well-run construction project five years from now. A tower crane swings ab...
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Tower Cranes Take Construction Engineering into Amazon Climate Science
Tower Cranes Take Construction Engineering into Amazon Climate Science The deployment of four Liebherr 85 EC-B tower cranes at the AmazonFACE research site near Manaus reads, at first glance, as a cur...
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Quipli’s Growth Signals a Digital Shift in Equipment Rental
Quipli’s Growth Signals a Digital Shift in Equipment Rental The equipment rental sector rarely treats a software vendor’s growth ranking as market news, yet Quipli’s placement at No....
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Real-Time Concrete Data is Rewriting the Economics of the Pour
Real-Time Concrete Data is Rewriting the Economics of the Pour The most expensive risk in concrete construction is rarely the one that makes headlines. Blow-outs, hidden voids and structural defects a...
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Trimble Closes the Distance Between the 3D Model and the Machine
Trimble Closes the Distance Between the 3D Model and the Machine The launch of Trimble SketchUp Pro Civil Contractor looks, on the surface, like a new edition of a familiar modelling package aimed at...
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How Haul Road Data is Changing the Economics of Earthmoving
How Haul Road Data is Changing the Economics of Earthmoving For most of the history of earthmoving, the haul road has been treated as something between the machines and the money: necessary, obvious a...
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Vermeer and Interlune to Industrialise the Lunar Construction Supply Chain
Vermeer and Interlune to Industrialise the Lunar Construction Supply Chain The most revealing thing about the expanded partnership between Interlune and Vermeer is not that a lunar excavator exists. I...
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LANDCROS Signals Hitachiβs Shift from Construction to Construction Intelligence
LANDCROS Signals Hitachiβs Shift from Machinery to Construction Intelligence Hitachi Construction Machinery has opened its LANDCROS Innovation Studios Challenge to Europe for the first time, inviting...
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Britainβs Road Safety Challenge is Shifting from Counting Collisions to Understanding Risk
Britainβs Road Safety Challenge is Shifting from Counting Collisions to Understanding Risk The Department for Transport’s final reported road casualty statistics for Great Britain in 2025, publi...
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Skyjackβs ELEVATE and the Race to Own the Connected Rental Machine
Skyjackβs ELEVATE and the Race to Own the Connected Rental Machine Skyjackβs latest push around its ELEVATE telematics suite, its operator-facing ELEVATE Live tool and a widening line of ACCESSORYZER...
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The Mid-Sized Excavator is Being Re-Specified as a Multi-Tool Platform
The Mid-Sized Excavator is Being Re-Specified as a Multi-Tool Platform A North Yorkshire groundworks contractor quietly re-equipping one excavator is not, on its own, a market event. When J Lingard Si...
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Quarterhill’s Conduent Deal Redraws the US Tolling Map
Quarterhill’s Conduent Deal Redraws the US Tolling Map A Canadian company that spent the better part of a decade reinventing itself from a patent-licensing shell into a focused roads-technology...
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