In October 2025, VINCI Highways also brought new solar installations into service – the energy produced on site covers 75% of the energy needs of Northwest Parkway’s administrative and technical buildings, with a long-term goal of full autonomy.
Lastly, in its first year of operation, the Via Salis motorway, managed by VINCI Highways and the first road-sector public-private partnership in the Czech Republic, turned in a solid performance, with no unexpected closures. More than 5.3 million vehicles used the new road in 2025.
India
Through its subsidiary ViaPlus, VINCI Highways was chosen by the Indian authorities to conduct a pilot project for trialling free-flow tolling before deployment on a larger scale. ViaPlus, in a consortium with the Indian bank Airtel, will design and roll out a free-flow system in one of the Delhi–Jaipur motorway’s toll plazas.
OPERATION AND DIGITAL SERVICES
In 2025, VINCI Highways implemented new solutions combining artificial intelligence with data from its video cameras to improve alerts, more rapidly detect pedestrians and immobilised vehicles in high-risk areas, and reduce response times. In Texas, ViaPlus also used AI to introduce a new licence plate recognition system that analyses, verifies and automatically reconstructs images of the licence plates captured by the toll network’s video systems. The rollout covers the entire HCTRA network, i.e. over 200 km of free-flow tolled highway in Houston and the surrounding region, used by 600 million vehicles a year. Also in the United States, VINCI Highways and its partners have upgraded signage for the Ohio River Bridges–East End Crossing infrastructure, which links the states of Kentucky and Indiana, to make it compatible with the use of self-driving cars. In this context, ground markings were enhanced over some 40 km by adding high-contrast elements to facilitate detection by on-board cameras.
In the field of connected infrastructure, 2025 saw deployment of the Smart Tunnels predictive maintenance program in four big tunnels on the Patras ring road in Greece. This system anticipates maintenance requirements and schedules repairs, to optimise performance of the equipment, from ventilation to fire extinguishing pumps and generators. As concerns prevention, the surveillance cameras installed by Entrevias, in Brazil, were equipped with AI systems to enable real-time detection of smoke or fire outbreaks, even outside the network itself. This is an important step forward in this densely agricultural region, where fighting wildfires is an operational challenge for motorway operators.
Improved operational performance for Denver’s Northwest Parkway, with the implementation of dynamic tolling.