headway vs progression

headway and progression both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
headway	Yes	No	No	No
progression	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, progression is a hypernym of headway; that is, progression is a word with a broader meaning than headway:

Other hypernyms of headway include advance, progress.

headway (noun)	progression (noun)
forward movement	the act of moving forward (as toward a goal)
vertical space available to allow easy passage under something	a movement forward
	a series with a definite pattern of advance