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Connected thinking
From a €10bn Australian highway overhaul to Luxembourg becoming the world's first fare-free nation, infrastructure investment is quietly reshaping how people and goods move across the globe.
Keep on trucking
The road. It’s dotted with romantic associations of freedom and escape but if you’re a long-haul trucker in the US, it’s a lot more serious than that. We visit the truckstops that sustain them.
Life in motion
From the infrastructure giant improving quality of life to the railway firm entering the property market, we meet the high-flyers going above and beyond.
The big spoke
Toronto, against all the odds, is very much a cycling city. We meet the independent bike makers and painters who are keeping the town in the saddle.
Push the boat out
Despite the predictions of big sales and profits, Asia’s yacht market is spluttering. But market watchers still hope that the habit will take hold.
Flights of fancy
Hamburg's Aircraft Interiors Expo delivered robots, double beds and wellness concepts alongside genuinely promising cabin innovations — suggesting aviation's interior designers are dreaming bigger, if not always more practically.
Street smarts
After a spin in a vintage Ferrari, Tyler Brûlé ponders the future of car design and mobility.
Going with the flow
Roland's engineers hiked mountain trails recording streams to solve Japan's most intimate public anxiety: the sound of strangers urinating. Meet the Sound Decorator, bathroom privacy's unlikely high-tech saviour.
Hit the summer sails
Now’s the time we start dreaming of the open water. We’ve found just the right vessels, from the sleekest yacht to the perfect pedalo.
Perfect pick me up
You stumble off a long-haul flight and there in the arrivals hall is a suited driver waiting for you. It’s a sign that all will be well today.
