Strabag has tested autonomous machines that can lay asphalt on a section of Austria’s A9 motorway between Graz and Slovenia. The units use satellite navigation and are able to recognise…

Vinci Highways has won a 30-year concession to operate and modernise a 594km section of Brazil’s tolled BR-040 highway. It’s the company’s second in Brazil after taking a 55% stake…

China is planning to spend $6.3bn to upgrade a stretch of the 1,900km G50 motorway between Shanghai and Chongqing, the World Highways website reports. 

Pakistan’s Economic Coordination Committee has approved a $2bn project to reconstruct a 241km stretch of the celebrated Karakoram Highway in northern Pakistan, newspaper Dawn reports. The road runs from the…

Spanish construction group Rubau and Mexican civil engineer VISE have won a €300m public–private partnership contract to build and maintain a toll road between the towns of Silao and San…

The cost of Pakistan’s M6 motorway between the cities of Sukkur and Hyderabad has nearly tripled in six years as a result of “mismanagement and inordinate delays by the federal…

An Oklahoma contractor specialising in erosion control on highway projects has been charged, along with its vice president and another employee, with a price-fixing conspiracy targeting more than $100m worth…

AASHTO – the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials – has approved a Purdue University-invented device that uses vibrations to check when concrete has cured. After seven years…

One of India’s most ambitious road projects, the 1,386km Delhi-Mumbai Expressway, is facing serious delays owing to land acquisition issues in the state of Gujarat, The Times of India reports.…

Chinese contractors will drill a 16km-long tunnel through a 2.4km-deep layer of glacial ice to build a major road in the far western autonomous region of Xinjiang. The West Tianshan…

The Japanese government is considering building a 500km-long underground conveyor system to move freight and consumer goods between Tokyo and Osaka to address a logistics crisis caused by labour shortages.…

North Korea and Russia have agreed to build a road bridge over the Tumen River that marks their 17km-long border. The two sides agreed to the project during Russian president…

China Road and Bridge (CRBC) has been chosen to build Angola’s first motorway: a 1,400km-long project that will link the north and south of the country, local media reports. Carlos…

Vietnam is planning to build a $2.2bn motorway connecting Pleiku in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai to the port city of Quy Nhon. The project was suggested by…

French contractor Vinci has bought two family-run firms to add to its road-building capacity in North America. One is Newport Construction based in New Hampshire in the US, and the…

Hungary is planning to improve traffic flow in Budapest by constructing a Chinese-funded railway bypass and a motorway ring road, local media report.   The V0 railway was discussed during Chinese…

Kenya has secured $3.6bn of funding for a 440km motorway between the capital of Nairobi and the port city of Mombasa. The Usahihi Expressway is set to become the longest…

The US Department of Transportation has approved an environmental review of a proposed $3.6bn bridge linking Cincinnati, Ohio and Covington, Kentucky over the Ohio River, meaning the scheme can now…