Innovation Heightened Utility and Deployment (iHUD)
The iHUD is a staff-level working committee of the Innovation and Research Council (IRC) that supports strategic innovation deployment across Federal agencies. It is responsible for communicating technologies which can expedite project delivery, decrease project costs, increase asset lifecycles, improve customer experience, and other project improvements. The iHUD emphasizes a grassroots approach for communication, idea collection, and technology transfer amongst peers. It is a work zone where innovators from across the depth and breadth of FLH and its Partners convene to discuss, vet, and share successes, failures, and the latest activities. A major role of the iHUD is to discern which innovations the IRC should invest in or pursue.
Innovation can come from many angles. For example, innovation can be the technology transfer activities following completed research. Under that scenario, innovation can simultaneously be a tool that has long term use in one agency’s State of the Practice, but for another agency it is a new adoption. The iHUD brings together both perspectives for the benefit of awareness and consideration of using new tools to fix problems.
Innovation Resources
FHWA houses many outlets to learn about innovative tools, techniques, and products, including:
- Local Aid Support Program
- Monthly Innovation Exchange webinars
- FHWA Every Day Counts Program
- State Transportation Innovation Councils Search Tool for technological products developed by State Departments of Transportation
Last updated: Tuesday, July 29, 2025