The Bufferer works in ground units, meaning that if your Higways dataset has a coordinate system specified in meters (e.g.UTM), then the Bufferer will use meters as the buffer size.In that case you could use a buffer size of 1000 meters = 1 km.
You could also use the GeographicBufferer which lets you specify the units, e.g.kilometers.To try and improve the speed of the Clipper, consider inserting a Dissolver between the Bufferer and the Clipper.
The logic should be very similar in FME, you can use the following transformers: