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.
Trimble Invests in Future Engineers Through Global Design Challenge
Trimble Invests in Future Engineers Through Global Design Challenge Across the world, governments are pouring billions into transport upgrades, energy transition programmes and urban regeneration sche...
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Trackunit IrisX Enables Real Time AI Equipment Intelligence
Trackunit IrisX Enables Real Time AI Equipment Intelligence For more than a decade, construction has invested heavily in telematics, sensors and connected machines. The sector now generates extraordin...
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Barco Launches BABA Compliant Recycled Rubber Speed Bumps
Barco Launches BABA Compliant Recycled Rubber Speed Bumps In recent years, the global construction conversation has largely revolved around megaprojects, digital twins and decarbonisation strategies....
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Financing Recovery and Urban Infrastructure in Tรผrkiye
Financing Recovery and Urban Infrastructure in Tรผrkiye In the years following the devastating February 2023 earthquakes in southern Tรผrkiye, the countryโs infrastructure priorities shifted overnight....
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Smart Steel Revives Ageing Bridges With Heat Activated Reinforcement
Smart Steel Revives Ageing Bridges With Heat Activated Reinforcement Across Europe, North America and parts of Asia, infrastructure owners are confronting a difficult reality. Much of the bridge netwo...
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Connected Intersections Move From Reactive Repairs To Predictive Operations
Connected Intersections Move From Reactive Repairs To Predictive Operations Across developed and emerging economies alike, intersections remain one of the most critical points in any transport network...
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Predictive Vision For Safer Streets
Predictive Vision For Safer Streets Across the developed world, road safety strategies have steadily reduced fatalities from vehicle occupants. Yet pedestrians remain disproportionately exposed. Accor...
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Topcon CR S1 Brings Everyday Reality Capture to Infrastructure Workflows
Topcon CR S1 Brings Everyday Reality Capture to Infrastructure Workflows For years, high-resolution reality capture sat at the edge of construction workflows. Laser scanners were accurate but slow, mo...
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From Trenches to Digital Twins as Field Reality Capture Enters the Enterprise GIS
From Trenches to Digital Twins as Field Reality Capture Enters the Enterprise GIS Across the global infrastructure sector, the most expensive problems are often the ones nobody can see. Utilities, hig...
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Evolving Infrastructure Through Intelligent Modernisation
Evolving Infrastructure Through Intelligent Modernisation Across the global infrastructure sector, digital transformation has quietly crossed a threshold. It is no longer viewed as a disruptive projec...
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Hyperspectral Imaging Is Transforming How Cities Understand Infrastructure
Hyperspectral Imaging Is Transforming How Cities Understand Infrastructure Across the developed world, transport authorities face a familiar dilemma. Roads are deteriorating faster than maintenance bu...
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XenomatiX Brings High Precision Profiling Down to Earth
XenomatiX Brings High Precision Profiling Down to Earth Across the world, road agencies face a familiar dilemma. Networks are ageing, budgets are tightening, and the cost of deferred maintenance conti...
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Leading Infrastructure Into The Predictive Era
Leading Infrastructure Into The Predictive Era Construction Intelligence Month: Week Three | February 2026 For most of the past century, infrastructure has been managed on the assumption that stabilit...
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Large Scale Soy Pavement Trialย Transforming Rural Infrastructure in Iowa
Large Scale Soy Pavement Trialย Transforming Rural Infrastructure in Iowa Across 24 miles of rural northeast Iowa, a quiet but significant shift in infrastructure technology has taken place. What might...
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Kenya Advances Dual Carriageway Plans for Northern Corridor Trade
Kenya Advances Dual Carriageway Plans for Northern Corridor Trade Western Kenyaโs busiest international highway is edging closer to a long-awaited transformation. The Government of Kenya, through its...
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CABEI Deepens Strategic Investment in the Dominican Republicโs Infrastructure
CABEI Deepens Strategic Investment in the Dominican Republicโs Infrastructure The scale of multilateral development finance flowing into the Dominican Republic has grown steadily in recent years, and...
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Topcon Partners With Xona To Strengthen Resilient GNSS Infrastructure
Topcon Partners With Xona To Strengthen Resilient GNSS Infrastructure The race to secure resilient, high precision positioning infrastructure has entered a new phase. Topcon Positioning Systems has si...
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Deepwater Gas and Digital Drilling Strengthen Indonesia Energy Security
Deepwater Gas and Digital Drilling Strengthen Indonesia Energy Security Indonesiaโs offshore sector is once again in the spotlight as SLB secures multiple offshore drilling services contracts from Mub...
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AI Powered Geoscience Accelerates Development at Konkola Copper Mines
AI Powered Geoscience Accelerates Development at Konkola Copper Mines The global race for copper has intensified. From electrified transport and grid expansion to data centres and renewable power, cop...
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Unlocking Ultra-High Temperature Geothermal at Scale
Unlocking Ultra-High Temperature Geothermal at Scale Geothermal energy has long been discussed as one of the few renewable resources capable of delivering continuous, baseload power without the interm...
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Ouster Expands Its Physical AI Platform with the Acquisition of StereoLabs
Ouster Expands Its Physical AI Platform with the Acquisition of StereoLabs The global construction, infrastructure and industrial automation sectors are entering a phase where autonomy is no longer a...
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Building Proof Into Intelligence as AI Moves Into Critical Infrastructure
Building Proof Into Intelligence as AI Moves Into Critical Infrastructure Midas has entered the public arena at a moment when artificial intelligence is no longer confined to experimental labs or cons...
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Capital Planning in the Age of AI Infrastructure
Capital Planning in the Age of AI Infrastructure Artificial intelligence has crossed a threshold that few in the construction and infrastructure world can now afford to ignore. What began as an operat...
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Building the Construction Control Tower
Building the Construction Control Tower Construction Intelligence Month: Week Two | February 2026 Across construction, transport, mining and energy, the phrase โcontrol towerโ has quietly changed mean...
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Blyncsy Helps Alabama Link Highway Asset Data to Budget Decisions
Blyncsy Helps Alabama Link Highway Asset Data to Budget Decisions Across the global highways sector, the pressure on road authorities is intensifying. Ageing assets, constrained budgets, rising safety...
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Physics First Autonomy Reshaping the Economics of Mining Haulage
Physics First Autonomy Reshaping the Economics of Mining Haulage Autonomous haulage has spent more than a decade promising step changes in productivity, safety and cost control for the global mining i...
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Unlocking Digital Interoperability for Modern Infrastructure Software
Unlocking Digital Interoperability for Modern Infrastructure Software Across the global construction and infrastructure sector, the ability to move complex design data cleanly between platforms has be...
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Embodied AI & Robotics Moving From Concept to Reality
Embodied AI & Robotics Moving From Concept to Reality The global construction, infrastructure and industrial technology sectors are watching embodied artificial intelligence move out of laboratori...
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Digitising the Last Major Bottleneck in Geotechnical Investigation
Digitising the Last Major Bottleneck in Geotechnical Investigation Across the global construction and infrastructure sector, ground investigation remains one of the most risk-laden phases of project d...
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Agentic AI Moves Into the Enterprise Core as Airrived Emerges from Stealth
Agentic AI Moves Into the Enterprise Core as Airrived Emerges from Stealth Enterprise technology has spent the past decade chasing automation, yet most organisations still rely on human glue to stitch...
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Texas Doubles Down on Traffic Intelligence With Expanded INRIX Partnership
Texas Doubles Down on Traffic Intelligence With Expanded INRIX Partnership The Texas Department of Transportation has spent years building a reputation as one of the most data-driven transport agencie...
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Building a Trustworthy Industrial AI Stack for the Physical World
Building a Trustworthy Industrial AI Stack for the Physical World Dassault Systรจmes and NVIDIA have moved well beyond a conventional technology tie up. Their newly announced long term strategic partne...
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Infrastructure Resilience in an Age of Compounding Risk
Infrastructure Resilience in an Age of Compounding Risk Across the global construction and infrastructure sector, resilience has shifted from a specialist concern to a defining strategic priority. Ext...
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Chinaโs Smart Brain TBM’s Create a New Era for Underground Infrastructure
Chinaโs Smart Brain TBM’s Create a New Era for Underground Infrastructure Tunnel construction has always been one of the most complex and risk-laden activities in global infrastructure delivery....
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Strategic Capital Meets Construction as Topcon Reinforces Its U.S. Retail Network
Strategic Capital Meets Construction as Topcon Reinforces Its U.S. Retail Network The decision by Topcon Positioning Systems to make a significant strategic investment in its U.S. retail arm, Topcon S...
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Railway Vision Puts Crete at a Transport Crossroads
Railway Vision Puts Crete at a Transport Crossroads Crete has spent decades grappling with a familiar paradox. It is one of Europeโs most strategically located islands, a powerhouse of tourism and reg...
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Construction Intelligence is Reshaping Global Infrastructure
Construction Intelligence is Reshaping Global Infrastructure Construction Intelligence Month: Week One | February 2026 Construction has always been a data-heavy industry. Long before the language of a...
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Autodesk Deepens Construction Data Strategy With ยฃ2m Investment in Qflow
Autodesk Deepens Construction Data Strategy With ยฃ2m Investment in Qflow The global construction sector is under mounting pressure to deliver projects that are not only on time and on budget, but demo...
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Building Coherence into Metro Manilaโs Mass Transit
Building Coherence into Metro Manilaโs Mass Transit Metro Manilaโs rail network is once again at the centre of a policy debate that could reshape how urban transport concessions are structured across...
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Rethinking a Strategic Spine in Northern Chileโs Road Network
Rethinking a Strategic Spine in Northern Chileโs Road Network Northern Chileโs transport corridors sit at the crossroads of global trade, extractive industries and regional development. Few routes are...
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Finning Introduces Cat Credits to the UK Market
Finning Introduces Cat Credits to the UK Market Across the global construction and infrastructure sector, margins are under constant pressure. Rising input costs, tighter project schedules and the gro...
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Acrow Modular Bridge Design Keeps Critical Texas Highway Moving
Modular Engineering Keeps Texas Moving During Interstate Expansion In fast-growing energy regions, infrastructure projects rarely enjoy the luxury of time. Traffic volumes keep climbing, supply chains...
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London Mining Week Sets the Agenda for Global Mining in 2026
London Mining Week Sets the Agenda for Global Mining in 2026 From 27 November to 3 December 2026, London will once again become the focal point for the global mining industry as London Mining Week ret...
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New Dealer Structure Signals Develonโs Long-Term Dutch Ambitions
New Dealer Structure Signals Develonโs Long-Term Dutch Ambitions Develon has quietly but decisively reshaped its dealer network in the Netherlands, introducing a revised territorial structure designed...
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Bobcat Compact Excavation heads to the Executive Hire Show 2026
Bobcat Compact Excavation heads to the Executive Hire Show 2026 The compact equipment rental market is going through a quiet but decisive shift. Hire fleets are under pressure to deliver more capable...
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Cat Signals a Strategic Shift in Hauling with the 707 Wide Body Truck
Cat Signals a Strategic Shift in Hauling with the 707 Wide Body Truck Across mining, quarrying and large-scale earthmoving operations, hauling efficiency often decides whether a project runs smoothly...
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Strategic Investment Set to Reshape Serbia’s Road Infrastructure
Strategic Investment Set to Reshape Serbia’s Road Infrastructure Across Europe, road networks are quietly being redefined as strategic national assets rather than passive conduits for traffic. S...
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Public Capital Unlocking Private Energy Investment in Kenya
Public Capital Unlocking Private Energy Investment in Kenya Kenyaโs clean energy transition has quietly become one of the most credible and commercially grounded success stories in global infrastructu...
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Volvo CE Strengthens Its European Retail Backbone with Swecon Acquisition
Volvo CE Strengthens Its European Retail Backbone with Swecon Acquisition Volvo Construction Equipment has quietly but decisively reshaped its European operating model with the completion of its acqui...
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Unlocking Subsurface Intelligence Across Mining Projects with Seequent
Unlocking Subsurface Intelligence Across Mining Projects with Seequent Across the global construction and mining ecosystem, the conversation around digital transformation often circles back to a singl...
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