Carpool/Vanpool
Carpool
Split driving costs with a carpool buddy or two (or more!) and share your ride to NC State.
Employees
Employee Carpool Information

A carpool is an organized group of 2-4 NC State employees who regularly ride together in one car and share a carpool permit.
Requlations & Eligibility
- Regulations
- The carpool permit only allows one vehicle to park on campus each day.
- A citation will be issued to each vehicle when multiple vehicles are parked on campus unless:
- a daily permit is claimed, or
- the vehicle is parked in an hourly pay lot
- Eligibility
- Two or more NC State employees must ride together to make up a carpool.
- Only permanent, full-time employees are eligible.
- Each carpool participant must have a vehicle registered in their name or the name of a family member.
- The assigned work location must be in a permitted area enforced by NC State Transportation, i.e., not an off-site location that does not require a valid NC State parking permit.
- Two or more NC State employees must ride together to make up a carpool.
Information
- Participants will split the cost of a carpool permit, $423 ($17.63 per month for a 2-person carpool, $11.75 per month for a 3-person carpool, etc.).
- Each participant pays via a monthly payroll deduction.
- The carpool permit is valid in the following locations:
- Employee B Locations (B)
- Employee C Locations (C)
- Partners Way Deck (CC)
- Coliseum Deck (CD)
- Fringe Lots (F)
- Dan Allen Deck (DD)
- Varsity Lot (V)
- West Deck (W)
- There are no designated carpool parking spaces on campus.
- Participants must reapply each year.
- Carpool participants are eligible for the Emergency Ride Home program.
- Each carpool participant is allotted 24 free daily virtual permits per year:
- Additional day parking privileges may be purchased for $6 each.
- Daily parking permits are valid only in C or CD areas.
- Daily permits are not to be sold, traded, gifted, or otherwise offered to an unauthorized user.
- Visit our FAQs for more information.
Allow up to 2 weeks to process applications. Please email [email protected] with any questions.
Students
Student carpool applications are currently closed. Please check back in October for information on the spring semester.
Vanpool
To save wear and tear on your car, why not sit back and relax in a vanpool? A vanpool is like a carpool, where people with similar schedules ride together, but the vans are leased by Enterprise for groups of riders. Vanpools are ideal for employees with regular work hours who are commuting from a distance.
Fares cover insurance and maintenance and vary based on mileage and the number of riders. Vanpool riders receive a $20 monthly subsidy.
NC State’s Vanpools
Interested in joining or starting a vanpool? Visit www.commutewithenterprise.com and click “Join Commute” (in the top right corner) to fill out their vanpool interest form. Questions? Contact Talitha Malachuk-Walter at [email protected].
