Carpool

Carpool Support

The TravelSmart program supports existing carpool groups and helps people who are trying to identify carpool partners to set up a new carpool group.

If you currently carpool or have already identified your carpool partner(s), we encourage you to read the details below and decide as a group if you collectively want to cancel your parking permits to obtain a free carpool pass or if you want to keep your current parking permits. Once a decision is made, you and your carpool partner(s) can register for the TravelSmart program.

Perks of TravelSmart Carpooling

As a registered carpool group with the TravelSmart program, you have the following available to you:

• Access to a free ride home (or to a hospital or a dependent's school/daycare) when unforeseen emergencies occur on the days that your group carpools.
• Option to obtain a free, shared carpool pass if your group cancels all of your parking permits, or your carpool group can keep your parking permits and continue paying the monthly fee (see Details and Decision Point below for more information)
•  If your carpool group decides to cancel your parking permits, you are also granted the following:
  • Opportunity to use daily rate flexible parking for $3 per day. View the daily rate flexible parking map to see the locations of the daily rate flex parking lots.
  • 3-month grace period in which you and your carpool partner(s) can request your parking permits back for your original lots (see Details & Decision Point below for more info) 

Free Carpool Pass vs. Keeping Parking Permits

As part of the registration process to be a carpooler with the TravelSmart program, you have the following options available to you: 

• You and your carpool partner(s) can obtain a free carpool pass, if all members of the carpool group cancel their current parking permits and return them to Parking Services located 4230 Leavenworth Street, room 3037. All parking permits must be returned in person to Parking Services at the same time. Once all of the parking permits are returned, one shared portable carpool pass will be issued to the group and payroll deduction for the regular employee parking fees will be stopped. All students will receive a prorated reimbursement of any fees paid

• Each carpooler in the group will have his or her original parking assignment available within 3 months from the date of TravelSmart registration. If a carpool member wants their parking permit back within this 3-month grace period, a permit will be reissued for their original lot. If a carpooler requests his or her parking permit back after 3 months, parking will be reassigned based on where space is available, which could include the original lot assignment. Please note that if all members collectively decide to stop the carpool group, they need to return the carpool pass to Parking Services before parking permits can be reissued.

•  The shared carpool pass will be issued for the parking lot that is currently assigned to the first person in the carpool group to register for the TravelSmart program. Parking lot assignment changes can be made, but will be based on space availability
•  As a registered TravelSmart participant, you and your carpool partner(s) have the opportunity to use daily rate flexible parking on the days that you need to drive separately to campus. The cost is $3.00 for the day. Payment is made when you arrive at the lot via a smart phone app or a cell phone that supports web browsers (or via a computer with access to the internet when you arrive at your workplace).

Learn more about on-campus parking