Employee Commuter Benefits
Employee Commuter Benefits
Do you get to work using alternative transportation?
NC State Transportation offers commuter parking benefits to employees!
- Walk or Bike to Campus
- Transit or Carpool/Vanpool
- Reduce Wear and Tear on Your Personal Vehicle
- Save Money
- Reduce your Carbon Footprint
The Fine Print


Employee Transit/Walk/Bike/Vanpool Commuter Program
Approved applicants will receive the following incentive:
- 24 free daily virtual parking permits for those days when you are unable to travel to work via transit, biking, walking or vanpooling.
Applicants must:
- Reapply each year for commuter status.
- Understand daily parking permits are valid in the Coliseum Deck or C permitted staff parking areas.
- You are provided 24 free virtual parking permits per academic year. Paid daily parking options.
- Understand that transit, bicycle, walk, and vanpool commuters cannot have a current NC State University parking permit for any area or must be willing to submit a permit cancel request for their current NC State University parking permit before their application will be processed.
- The assigned work location must be in an NC State Transportation permitted area; i.e., not an off-site location that does not require a valid NC State parking permit.
- Each applicant must have a registered vehicle in their name or in the name of a family member or spouse. This assists in reaching the goal of reducing single-occupancy vehicles on campus.
- Daily permits are not to be sold, traded, gifted, or otherwise offered to an unauthorized user.
Employee Carpool Program
Goal – To reduce single-occupancy vehicles on campus
Fall 2021 Carpool Applications Open June 1, 2021.
Description
Carpool (CPE)
- At least two permanent NC State Employees are needed to form a carpool.
- Participants split the cost of a C permit ($387).
- Each carpooler pays via a monthly payroll deduction.
- Carpoolers may park in B, C, CC, CD, F, DD, V, or W areas.
- Each carpooler receives 24 free daily virtual permits. Daily parking permits are valid in C or CD areas only.
Application Process / Eligibility Policies
- An application must be completed online.
- The assigned work location must be in an NC State Transportation permitted area; i.e., not an off-site location that does not require a valid NC State parking permit.
- To meet the goal of reducing single-occupancy vehicles on campus, each carpool applicant must have a registered vehicle in their name or in the name of a family member or spouse.
- Allow up to (2) weeks to process applications. Please email ncsu-wolftrails@ncsu.edu with any questions.
- If applicable, applicants will submit a cancel request for their current NC State University parking permit before their application is processed.
- Daily permits are not to be sold, traded, gifted, or otherwise offered to an unauthorized user.
- Carpool applicants must reapply each year for commuter status.
- Carpool participants are eligible for the Emergency Ride Home program
Payment Method – Payroll Deduction
- Carpool participants must pay for their carpool permit via payroll deduction.