The rHUD is a staff-level working committee that supports the Innovation and Research Council's (IRC) Biennial Research Program. The rHUD gathers research and researchers from across Federal Land Management Agency (FLMA) Partners, Federal Lands Highway (FLH) Discipline Champions, and Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Research Development and Technology (RD&T). The objective of the rHUD is to define research roadmaps and consequential steps that benefit owners and operators of networks that provide access to and within Public Lands. The rHUD is a venue to share research resources amongst FLMAs so allocated funding is leveraged wisely toward the unique needs of Partners.

The allocation of RD&T funding represents collaborative investment into value-adding projects that align with the mission of the FLMAs and which address problems that FLMAs face, such as transportation networks that are characteristically less traveled than Interstate highways. Agency Research Programs, Laboratories, and Research Libraries are additional sources of information.

The major roles of the rHUD are to:

• Review and provide input on future research proposals to inform IRC decision making
• Assist with the deployment of completed research, when applicable
• Convey subject matter expertise

Research Program

The IRC Research Program webpage has information about the application process, including who is eligible for funding and how to apply or nominate a project. Only nominations from rHUD charter member agencies are eligible.

Review Project Profiles for current research projects supported by the Innovation and Research Program.

Federal Research Libraries

The links below lead to various U.S. DOT, FHWA, and FLMA research libraries that are repositories for research activities and reports that relate to transportation and public lands.

• U.S. DOT Research Hub
• Transportation Research Information Database (TRID)
• FHWA
  • ROSA-P Federal Lands Collection
  • FHWA Research Library
  • FHWA Research Projects Search
  • Transportation Pooled Fund Program
• FLMAs
  • Bureau of Land Management Library
  • Bureau of Reclamation Library
  • Department of the Interior Library
  • National Park Service Research Databases and Collections
  • Presidio Trust Library
  • U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Digital Library
  • U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Conservation Library
  • U.S. Forest Service Library

Other Research Programs/Laboratories

These additional FLMA research repositories may include transportation research.