Latest Highways.Today News
Hitachi and Pronto Put Mixed-Fleet Autonomy at the Centre of Mining’s Future
Hitachi and Pronto Put Mixed-Fleet Autonomy at the Centre of Mining’s Future The strategic partnership between Hitachi Construction Machinery and Pronto points towards a more commercially accessible model for mine automation, one designed around the equipment operators already own rather than an ent...
Read more
Japan is Building a Full-Stack AI Economy With NVIDIA
Japan is Building a Full-Stack AI Economy With NVIDIA Japan’s latest wave of artificial intelligence investment matters because it is moving beyond isolated software trials and into the machinery, factories, transport systems and scientific infrastructure that support the wider economy. A series of...
Read more
Commercial UAV Expo Brings FAA and EASA Together on BVLOS Drone Operations
Commercial UAV Expo Brings FAA and EASA Together on BVLOS Drone Operations Routine beyond visual line of sight drone operations could alter the economics of infrastructure inspection, surveying, emergency response and asset monitoring. Their wider adoption would allow one operator to cover longer co...
Read more
Building Safer Himalayan Cities Without Pricing People Out
Building Safer Himalayan Cities Without Pricing People Out The most important housing challenge facing the Hindu Kush Himalayas is not simply how to construct more homes. It is how to deliver affordable housing on safe, serviced land while towns are expanding across one of the world’s most seismical...
Read more
Australia’s AU$100 Million Equipment Auction Signals Deeper Market Liquidity
Australia’s AU$100 Million Equipment Auction Signals Deeper Market Liquidity Australia’s construction, mining, transport and agricultural equipment market has delivered a significant measure of its underlying strength. Ritchie Bros.’ 2026 National End of Financial Year auctions generated more than A...
Read more
High-Resolution Drone Mapping Brings Precision Management to Rangelands
High-Resolution Drone Mapping Brings Precision Management to Rangelands Managing extensive landscapes has traditionally required a compromise between scale and detail. Satellite imagery can cover large territories, while ground surveys reveal conditions at plant and soil level, but neither method al...
Read more
Montenegro Building a Digital Backbone for Safer and Smarter Roads
Montenegro Building a Digital Backbone for Safer and Smarter Roads Montenegro’s decision to deploy intelligent transport systems across its national road network marks a shift from constructing individual pieces of infrastructure towards managing the network as a connected operational system. Backed...
Read more
ORNL Motor Drive Design Targets Heat and Wear for High-Power Electric Propulsion
ORNL Motor Drive Design Targets Heat and Wear for High-Power Electric Propulsion The next phase of transport electrification will depend on more than battery capacity and charging speed. Heavy-duty trucks, construction equipment, ships and aircraft need propulsion systems capable of handling sustain...
Read more
Komatsu Brings Connected Earthworks to Singapore’s Changi Terminal 5
Komatsu Brings Connected Earthworks to Singapore’s Changi Terminal 5 Komatsu’s first full-scale Smart Construction deployment in Singapore will place digitally guided machinery and shared earthworks data at the centre of one of Asia’s most consequential infrastructure programmes. At Changi Airport T...
Read more
Topcon and GreenValley Alliance Targets the Next Generation of Spatial Intelligence
Topcon and GreenValley Alliance Targets the Next Generation of Spatial Intelligence The strategic agreement between Topcon Positioning Systems and GreenValley International signals a wider change in how geospatial technology is being developed and sold. Surveying is moving beyond individual instrume...
Read more
Trimble and Engineers Without Borders Rewire Uganda’s Infrastructure Pipeline
Trimble and Engineers Without Borders Rewire Uganda’s Infrastructure Pipeline Most infrastructure stories in emerging markets are told as funding stories, built on the assumption that projects fail to happen because the capital is not there. The partnership Trimble has expanded with the Engine...
Read more
Autonomous Sensor Workflows are Redrawing Infrastructure Drone Surveying
The Drone Was Never the Point Autonomous Sensor Workflows are Redrawing Infrastructure Drone Surveying For most of the past decade, the commercial drone story was a story about aircraft. Better cameras, longer flights, larger batteries and steadier gimbals defined what buyers cared about, and the he...
Read more
How Robotic Hydrodemolition is Reshaping Concrete Repair
How Robotic Hydrodemolition is Reshaping Concrete Repair Concrete repair rarely makes headlines, yet the economics of how a bridge deck or car park slab is stripped back and rebuilt sit close to the centre of the maintenance challenge facing most developed economies. Governments across Europe and No...
Read more
The Construction Technology Being Engineered for Earth and Beyond
The Construction Technology Being Engineered for Earth and Beyond For most of the past half century, construction has been the industry that innovation seemed to forget. While manufacturing, logistics and communications were rebuilt around automation, sensors and software, the business of moving ear...
Read more
Seawater and the Seabed are Redrawing the Critical Minerals Map
Seawater and the Seabed are Redrawing the Critical Minerals Map For most of the industrial era, the phrase critical minerals conjured open pits, haul trucks and mountains reduced to gravel. That picture is now being challenged by a very different one, in which the raw materials of electrification an...
Read more
Esri’s Power of Where Collection Puts Water and Land Data at the Heart of Infrastructure
Esri’s Power of Where Collection Puts Water and Land Data at the Heart of Infrastructure When a software company releases books rather than product updates, it is easy to file the news under corporate housekeeping and move on. That would be a mistake in this case. Esri’s decision to debu...
Read more
Between Fleets and Cities: Arrive’s Eugene Tsyrklevich on the Kerbside’s Next Decade
Between Fleets and Cities: Arrive’s Eugene Tsyrklevich on the Kerbside’s Next Decade The United Kingdom opened its self-driving vehicle pilot scheme in 2026, with applications inviting operators to run taxi and bus-style automated services and the first paying journeys expected later in...
Read more
Rewriting Bitumen Emulsion Procurement with Bio-Based Enhancers
Rewriting Bitumen Emulsion Procurement with Bio-Based Enhancers At the Bituroad Conference 2026 in Tbilisi, among keynotes on corridor economics and supply-chain resilience, a technical presentation from China’s XiYueFa Group set out a proposition with unusually broad commercial reach. The roa...
Read more
Bio-Based Chemistry Recycling Roads at Room Temperature
Bio-Based Chemistry Recycling Roads at Room Temperature For most of the past four decades the road industry has been measured by how much it builds. The more instructive question now is how much it can keep, and how much of what it tears up it can put straight back down. That shift formed the focus...
Read more
Standards, Mandates and Machine Learning at GEBT 2026 in Guangzhou
Standards, Mandates and Machine Learning at GEBT 2026 in Guangzhou The 23rd edition of Guangzhou Electrical Building Technology (GEBT) closed on 12 June 2026 having confirmed something the sector has suspected for a while, which is that the demand for intelligent buildings is no longer being driven...
Read more
Esri Moves Real-Time GIS Behind the Firewall With ArcGIS Velocity
Esri Moves Real-Time GIS Behind the Firewall With ArcGIS Velocity Esri has made ArcGIS Velocity generally available for self-hosted ArcGIS Enterprise, and for infrastructure owners the significance is less about the software itself than about where it can now run. Until this release, organisations w...
Read more
Utility Locator Price Index 2026: New, Used and Rental Equipment Compared
Utility Locator Price Index 2026: New, Used and Rental Equipment Compared The price of a utility locator depends on more than its model number. A receiver-only listing can look inexpensive until you add a transmitter, clamp, leads, charger, batteries, and carrying bag. A used current-generation syst...
Read more
Best Garage Door Services in Houston, TX: 4 Companies to Consider
Best Garage Door Services in Houston, TX: 4 Companies to Consider Your garage door quits working at 9 PM on a Friday, and suddenly you realize how few reliable options exist in a city this size. The best garage door services in Houston are harder to pin down than you’d think, mostly because th...
Read more
The Intelligent Machine Has Arrived
The Intelligent Machine Has Arrived Picture a working earthworks site on a weekday morning. An excavator trims a batter to design grade on its own, its boom and bucket following a three-dimensional model while the operator watches from a remote operations centre and keeps an eye on two other machine...
Read more
Open High-Res Hydrography Reaches the Americas with HydroSHEDS v2
Open High-Res Hydrography Reaches the Americas with HydroSHEDS v2 For anyone who plans roads, bridges, pipelines, drainage systems or flood defences, the quality of the underlying water map has always set the ceiling on what the analysis can deliver. Rivers, catchment boundaries and the direction wa...
Read more
Hytera PDC580 Bridges Narrowband and Broadband on the Critical Front Line
Hytera PDC580 Bridges Narrowband and Broadband on the Critical Front Line The launch of a single handheld radio rarely counts as a strategic event, yet the release of Hytera’s PDC580 dual-mode rugged radio touches on a question that sits near the top of the agenda for infrastructure owners, tr...
Read more
MIDA Civils Deepens Kubota Commitment as Fleet Expands Beyond 100 Machines
MIDA Civils Deepens Kubota Commitment as Fleet Expands Beyond 100 Machines When a contractor barely five years old commits to fifteen new excavators in a single order, the number itself is less telling than the reasoning behind it. Bedfordshire-based MIDA Civils has added fifteen Kubota compact mach...
Read more
Trimble’s AI Takeoff Tools Target the MEP Estimating Bottleneck
Trimble’s AI Takeoff Tools Target the MEP Estimating Bottleneck Construction’s stubborn productivity problem has a well-documented choke point, and it sits in the pre-construction office rather than on site. Before a single conduit is bent or a light fixture wired, an estimator has to in...
Read more
Quarterhill to Triple Tolling Revenue in Conduent Acquisition
Quarterhill to Triple Tolling Revenue in Conduent Acquisition The agreement for Quarterhill to acquire substantially all of the assets of Conduent’s tolling solutions business is one of the more consequential pieces of consolidation the electronic tolling sector has seen in several years, and...
Read more
Britain’s First Liebherr 620 HC-L Goes to Work Inside York’s City Walls
Britain’s First Liebherr 620 HC-L Goes to Work Inside York’s City Walls The arrival of the UK’s first Liebherr 620 HC-L luffing jib tower crane matters less for the machine itself than for the type of project it has been bought to serve. Bennetts Cranes has raised the crane on a ti...
Read more
ASME’s GDTP 2018 Certification Raises the Bar on Precision Engineering Skills
ASME’s GDTP 2018 Certification Raises the Bar on Precision Engineering Skills The American Society of Mechanical Engineers has updated its Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing Professional credential, aligning it with the current ASME Y14.5-2018 standard and repositioning a decades-old quali...
Read more
Clearview and Prismo Secure DfT Approval for Cast Iron SolarLite S381 Active Road Stud
Clearview and Prismo Secure DfT Approval for Cast Iron SolarLite S381 Active Road Stud For most highway authorities, the obstacle to fitting active, illuminated road studs has rarely been the technology itself. Solar-powered studs that project their own LED light have been proven on UK roads for the...
Read more
Esri Explores the Strategic Value of GIS in Higher Education with The Spatial Edge
Esri Explores the Strategic Value of GIS in Higher Education with The Spatial Edge Esri has published The Spatial Edge: The Strategic Advantage of GIS Skills Across Higher Education, a guide arguing that geographic information systems belong across an entire university rather than inside a handful o...
Read more
Why Reliable Equipment is Essential for Modern Developments
Why Reliable Equipment is Essential for Modern Developments Modern developments, whether residential, commercial, or industrial, rely on a wide range of equipment to ensure projects run smoothly and efficiently. From construction machinery and storage systems to utility infrastructure and maintenanc...
Read more
Low Bridge Alerts and Weight Limit Routing: What CDL Drivers Need in a GPS App
Low Bridge Alerts and Weight Limit Routing: What CDL Drivers Need in a GPS App Commercial trucks are the lifelines of modern economies, hauling everything from concrete and steel to consumer goods. The sheer scale and mass of these vehicles provide significant advantages over other transportation mo...
Read more
HTEC and Embotech Accelerate the Industrial Rollout of Level 4 Autonomous Logistics
HTEC and Embotech Accelerate the Industrial Rollout of Level 4 Autonomous Logistics The industrial autonomy market is entering a new phase where engineering execution, certification and scalable deployment are becoming just as important as advances in artificial intelligence. As autonomous vehicle t...
Read more
INRIX Signals Scorecard Turns Connected Vehicle Data into Traffic Signal Benchmarks
INRIX Signals Scorecard Turns Connected Vehicle Data into Traffic Signal Benchmarks Traffic signals rank among the most heavily used and least scrutinised assets on the road network. Agencies commit substantial sums to installing, timing and maintaining them, yet the instruments available to judge w...
Read more
Big Joe Forklifts at 75 looks at Lithium-Ion and Autonomy
Big Joe Forklifts at 75 looks at Lithium-Ion and Autonomy A seventy-fifth anniversary would ordinarily sit in the softer corner of the trade press, a moment for company photographs and a look back at old catalogues. In the case of Big Joe Forklifts, the milestone is more useful read as a market sign...
Read more
BYD SHARK Takes On the Ford Ranger PHEV in a Reformed Pickup Market
BYD SHARK Takes On the Ford Ranger PHEV in a Reformed Pickup Market The double-cab pickup has long held an unusual place in the British and European fleet, prized as much for its favourable tax treatment as for its ability to haul a tonne of aggregate up a site access road. That settlement has now ....
Read more
Argonne’s ChemGraph is Reshaping Materials Research
Argonne’s ChemGraph is Reshaping Materials Research The materials that will decide the next decade of infrastructure, from longer-lasting batteries to cleaner-burning fuels and secure supplies of critical minerals, all begin life inside a simulation. Designing them at the atomic level has long...
Read more
The Roads That Autonomous Vehicles Need Don’t Yet Exist
The Roads That Autonomous Vehicles Need Don’t Yet Exist Autonomous vehicles are coming to the UK but are our roads ready? The lane-keep assist and driver safety systems fitted to millions of cars depend on being able to read road markings and signage clearly. On British roads as they currently...
Read more
How Smart Street Lighting Supports Safer and More Efficient Road Infrastructure
How Smart Street Lighting Supports Safer and More Efficient Road Infrastructure Smart street lighting projects should connect lighting design, communication methods, monitoring platforms and handover planning before installation. Road lighting is no longer only about installing luminaires and switch...
Read more
How Real-Time Traffic Data Helps Cities Spot Road Danger Earlier
How Real-Time Traffic Data Helps Cities Spot Road Danger Earlier Motor vehicle crashes cost far more than most people realize. In 2019 alone, the U.S. recorded $340 billion in crash costs, which works out to roughly $1,035 per person. And here’s the uncomfortable truth: much of the road safety...
Read more
World Bank Road & Rail Cost Calculator Delivers Real Planning Intelligence
World Bank Road & Rail Cost Calculator Delivers Real Planning Intelligence The single most consequential number in any road or railway scheme is set long before a machine turns earth. It is the early cost estimate that decides whether a project enters the pipeline, how it is compared against riv...
Read more
SPH Engineering Launches 2026 Global Drone Operations Awards
SPH Engineering Launches 2026 Global Drone Operations Awards SPH Engineering has opened applications for the Global Drone Operations Awards 2026, an international recognition programme aimed at advanced drone work in industrial, scientific and engineering settings. On its surface this is a competiti...
Read more
From Haul Road to Smelter: Pedestrian Alert Technology Finds a Wider Market
From Haul Road to Smelter: Pedestrian Alert Technology Finds a Wider Market A pedestrian detection system built for the mining sector has been fitted across a mixed fleet of forklifts, skid steer loaders, cranes and backhoes at a mining and smelting complex in northwest Queensland, and the deploymen...
Read more
Amman Opens its Kerbside to Private Investment for Citywide Smart Parking
Amman Opens its Kerbside to Private Investment for Citywide Smart Parking Amman Vision for Investment and Development (AVID), the investment arm of the Greater Amman Municipality (GAM), has invited local and international firms to submit expressions of interest and prequalification documents for a c...
Read more
Uzbekistan Backs New Tashkent International Airport with 35-Year Aviation PPP
Uzbekistan Backs New Tashkent International Airport with 35-Year Aviation PPP Uzbekistan has committed to one of Central Asia’s largest single pieces of transport infrastructure, signing a public-private partnership project finance agreement for the construction and long-term operation of the...
Read more
Harare’s US$3 Billion Light Rail on Track for 2029
Harare’s US$3 Billion Light Rail on Track for 2029 The Zimbabwean government has moved its most ambitious urban transport plan in a generation from aspiration towards execution, granting National Project Status to a US$3 billion light rail scheme intended to reconnect Greater Harare by rail fo...
Read more
AI Drone Surveys Take on the Plastic Mines Metal Detectors Cannot Find
AI Drone Surveys Take on the Plastic Mines Metal Detectors Cannot Find Every major reconstruction programme in a formerly contested landscape shares an unglamorous precondition. Before roads can be relaid, housing rebuilt or energy infrastructure restored, the ground itself has to be certified safe,...
Read more
Walnut Shell Catalyst Reframes Recycling Plastic into Chemicals
Walnut Shell Catalyst Reframes Recycling Plastic into Chemicals A new study out of Shihezi University has quietly shifted the terms of a debate that matters far beyond the laboratory bench. For years the chemical recycling industry has chased a single number: how much high-value liquid a catalyst ca...
Read more
China’s Coal Mining Reinvention to go on Show at Beijing’s CICEME Expo 2026
China’s Coal Mining Reinvention to go on Show at Beijing’s CICEME Expo 2026 China mines and burns more coal than the rest of the world combined, and the way it chooses to modernise that output will shape equipment markets, safety standards and emissions trajectories far beyond its own bo...
Read more
How Deep Should you Compact Soil Before Laying Pavers?
How Deep Should you Compact Soil Before Laying Pavers? Getting your soil depth wrong before laying pavers is one of the most common mistakes DIYers make, and it’s also one of the most expensive to fix after the fact. If the base isn’t compacted deeply enough, pavers shift, crack, and sin...
Read more
Construction Robotics Steps Up a Gear as Berlin Prepares to Host Robotics-2027
Construction Robotics Steps Up a Gear as Berlin Prepares to Host Robotics-2027 The distance between a robotics laboratory and a live construction site has been shrinking for several years, and the gap is now narrow enough that infrastructure owners, contractors and plant manufacturers can no longer...
Read more
Uzbekistan’s Coatings, Concrete and Chemical Shows Converge on Tashkent
Uzbekistan’s Coatings, Concrete and Chemical Shows Converge on Tashkent For three days in September 2026, a single exhibition hall in Tashkent will host what amounts to an entire construction materials supply chain under one roof. The Uzbekistan Coatings Show, Uzbekistan Concrete Show and Uzbe...
Read more
The Next Frontier of Equipment Procurement
The Next Frontier of Equipment Procurement For most of the industry’s history, acquiring a bulldozer or excavator was a reasonably contained transaction. A contractor sized up a machine against the job, negotiated a price with a dealer, arranged finance and took delivery, confident their const...
Read more
Sandvik Unifies Jaw Crusher Portfolio for Smarter Primary Crushing
Sandvik Unifies Jaw Crusher Portfolio for Smarter Primary Crushing Primary crushing remains one of the most demanding stages of any quarrying, mining or heavy construction operation. Equipment reliability, operator safety and predictable throughput all have a direct impact on project productivity, m...
Read more
Vantor’s WorldView 3D Turns the Map into a Live Operating Layer
Vantor’s WorldView 3D Turns the Map into a Live Operating Layer For as long as engineers, planners and commanders have relied on maps, the map has behaved like a fixed reference point: surveyed once, trusted for years, and quietly falling out of step with a world that never stops moving. Vanto...
Read more
Monotch Brings European TLEX Connected Mobility to US Traffic Networks
Monotch Brings European TLEX Connected Mobility to US Traffic Networks A proven European traffic-data platform is about to meet the messier reality of American signal infrastructure, and the outcome matters well beyond a single boulevard in the San Francisco Bay Area. Monotch and the Contra Costa Tr...
Read more
Kärcher and STIHL Forge a Shared Battery Standard for Professional Equipment
Kärcher and STIHL Forge a Shared Battery Standard for Professional Equipment When two of Germany’s largest family-owned equipment manufacturers agree to run their professional machines off the same battery, the significance reaches well beyond the two brands involved. Kärcher and STIHL have co...
Read more