Carpooling

Carpool Permits

Split the cost and save on parking by signing up for a PSU Carpool permit. Carpooling is an environmentally friendly way for PSU faculty, staff, and students to commute to campus and share the price. Carpooling can also save you time with priority parking locations around campus exclusively for folks who choose to carpool.

Check out our employee and student permit parking pages for more information about carpool pricing and availability for PSU students and employees.

Purchasing a Permit

To obtain a Carpool permit, all participants must visit the Transportation and Parking Office in person. While each participant can register a vehicle, only one physical permit will be issued. Please be ready to identify who will be responsible for payment of the permit at the time of purchase, for Students, this will be the term charge of $366, or for Faculty/Staff payroll deductions of $144/month.

Carpool Permit Regulations and Requirements

A carpool must include between 2-4 participants whose class schedules begin or end within 2 hours of one another.
Class schedules must permit you to carpool for a minimum of three days per week.
Carpoolers must be registered for 9 or more credits.
Carpoolers must live within the same zip code OR be located along a logical route to PSU's campus.
All carpool participants are restricted from purchasing other parking permits during the term.
Carpools may include both PSU students and staff/faculty.

NOTE: If using a carpool permit, it must be in one of the vehicles registered with PSU and linked to the permit. If more than one carpool vehicle is found on campus at the same time, you will be cited for misuse of a permit ($80) for each vehicle. Abuse of the carpool permit, whether intentional or accidental, is serious and expensive. It is extremely important for carpool participants to communicate with one another when coming to campus in separate vehicles with carpool permits to avoid being cited and make sure your permit is visible to Parking Enforcement.