I.F.: The Highway

 New Highways:

solar energy collection via friction and weather resistant disks where electricity is collected and fed back into the linear grid to be collected and redistributed or used to power features as tolling stations

irrigative management of rain and snow where runoffs are managed through processing possible 

accommodation for autonomous vehicles including large cross-country trucks as well as augmented vehicles and segtors of performance highways for high-performance vehicles

scaled and regular charging stations (towards commercial, requiring public-private coalition) or in-motion charging roads (see Stockholm)

material of greater endurance and being smoother with less friction: varied material in spirit of prototypical ventures: novel or enhanced material or material combination

highly efficient overhead lighting with configurations w/ motion sensitivity where appropriate (and or possibly backlit lane partitioning) and intelligent lighting systems incorporating such as wi-fi, notification loudspeakers, weather monitoring, emergency incident monitoring and transmission

advancement of wireless transmitting signage, suitable for transmitting to receivers in human driving cars and to self driving vehicles; also adaptable for traffic and violations monitoring

support V2V, V2N, V2X transmissibility across new vehicles to speed communicability of incidents and conditions on highways

call for new designs for roadway waystations and lookout-observatory microports

new forms of roadways forming new types of connections between new types of nodes

greenaries to be cultivated at locations like vicinity into townships

campsites are possible for observing the dark sky

ev charging lots with amenities

various attributes:

    smart systems: flooding detection and adjustment, driver wrong side detection, etc

    kiosks: emergency or roadside assistance dispatch signaling, vending, waste disposal and recycling etc. 

    locii: weather and condition monitors

    motion-sensitive lighting: for less used segments of roadway

points for consideration:

vicinity to urban places - eg. transfer of energy from solar energy collection

 

commercial or private enterprises offering vehicles on sharing-economic principles