• Transportation and Parking Services confiscates bikes that are abandoned. A bike is considered abandoned if it is not registered with the University and/or displays signs of significant neglect, such as flat or bent tires or missing parts.
   
• Transportation and Parking Services will tag individual bikes that display signs of neglect for up to 14 days (tagging period) before removing them. If the bike is registered, Transportation and Parking Services will contact the owner.
   
• A bike is considered unclaimed if the owner does not pick up the bike or device within 30 days of confiscation or remains unclaimed after summer storage drop off.
   
• If the bike is unclaimed, it will be donated offsite, recycled, scrapped, or integrated within Transportation and Parking Services’ rental fleet. The University is not responsible for damaged locks when removing abandoned property

Princeton University's personal electronic vehicle policy establishes rules and procedures for the safe operation, storage, charging, and parking of electric vehicles (e.g., electric skateboards, electric bicycles, hoverboards, etc.) on the Princeton University campus.

Per this policy, personal electric vehicles, electric scooters, and other electric micro-mobility devices, such as hoverboards and electric and motorized skateboards, are prohibited to be used, stored, parked, or charged within the zone indicated in Appendix A.

Electric bicycles in “assist” mode, provided that users follow all applicable traffic regulations and requirements in Appendix B, are permitted on campus roadways but not pathways and sidewalks.

This policy does not apply to electric wheelchairs, mobility scooters, or other electric mobility devices specifically designed for and used by an individual with a mobility-related disability.

Read the full policy on the EHS website.

Undergraduate Student Parking

Princeton University is a pedestrian campus; students are expected to walk, bike, or ride TigerTransit to classes, eating clubs, and athletic practices and events. Undergraduate students are generally not permitted to bring a vehicle to campus. 

Any student, including graduate students, who seeks to register a vehicle on behalf of another student, nonstudent, or student who is not currently enrolled, will be reported for disciplinary action.

• All commuting University faculty, staff, and students must have a virtual permit to park on campus. TPS will issue one virtual permit per person. Parking permits are not transferable from one person to another.
   
• Each permit holder is assigned a specific parking zone determined by the permit holder’s affiliation with the University and primary campus building. University parking lots are shared by multiple departments and for varying uses and are not often reserved for specific departmental use. 
   
• A University parking permit does not guarantee an available parking space in your assigned zone. If your assigned zone is full, please proceed to Stadium Drive Garage.
   
• Handwritten or typed notes, as well as University hang tags from prior years, are not recognized as permits. Vehicles parked without an active virtual parking permit may be cited.
   
• All vehicles must be parked in a legal space or be subject to citations and/or a boot/tow.
   
• After 4 PM on weekdays, on weekends, and on University holidays, parking in any numbered, unrestricted garage or surface lot is open to all permit holders and visitors.
   
• Lots P8, P9, P15, P22, P52, Campus Club Lot, and Cannon Club Lot and any unnumbered lot adjacent to campus buildings require special permits at all times, including holidays, evenings, and weekends. 

• Monday through Friday, 7 am to 4 pm. Visitors coming to the University on weekdays from 7 AM to 4 PM are welcome to park in Stadium Drive Garage. Visitors using the garage are asked to register for a daily visitor permit. Registration can be done online in advance or at the garage during arrival. Parking permits are not transferable from one person to another. ​​​​​​​
   

• After 4 pm and on weekends and University holidays: University visitors may park in any numbered and non-restricted parking lots, including the Theater Drive Garage, Prospect Ave Garage, and Stadium Drive Garage. Please see Princeton University Visitor Parking Map for more information.
   

• Visitor permits are intended for infrequent parking needs for individuals unaffiliated with the University. Vehicles claiming more than five visitor permits in a two-week period may be cited.
   

• Unaffiliated visitors anticipating parking on campus more than five times in a two-week period should contact the Service Point for parking options.

• Visitors may not park in any campus parking facility overnight without permission and an overnight permit issued TPS.
   

• All vehicles must be parked in a legal space or be subject to citations and/or a boot/tow. Please see Parking enforcement: legal spaces for more details.
   

Enrolled students, faculty or staff, contracted service providers or project contractors, are not considered campus visitors. Please click to find more information regarding your available parking options.

• Graduate students, faculty, and staff residing in University-owned housing must have an active virtual permit to park. 
   

• Residents may park up to two vehicles per household at residential parking facilities. Graduate student households requesting to park a second vehicle will should contact The Service Point to purchase a second permit. Parking permits are not transferable from one person to another. 
   

• Handwritten or typed notes, as well as University hang tags from prior years, are not recognized as permits. Vehicles parked without an active virtual parking permit will be cited. 
   

• All vehicles must be parked in a legal space or be subject to citations and/or a boot/tow. Please see Parking enforcement: legal spaces for more details.
   

• No vehicle may remain parked in a University resident parking area while the resident has sublet their unit or otherwise not actively paying rent on the unit. 

• Permit holders must register their vehicle(s) to their active virtual permit in order to park on campus. Parking permits are not transferable from one person to another. 
   
• Virtual permits are based on the license plate of the vehicle(s) you have registered. The license plates of your vehicles must be up to date and associated with your virtual permit. You may not register someone else's vehicle to your account. 
   
• When driving a loaner or rental vehicle to campus, permit holders must login to the parking portal to register the rental vehicle. There is a special rental vehicle designation with an automated expiration permit that permit holders may set themselves. 
   
• Although you may register more than one vehicle to your permit, permit holders may only park one vehicle on campus at a time. Permit holders found to be parking more than one vehicle on campus at the same time may be cited. 

• Service vehicles or other fleet vehicles actively in use for servicing the campus are expected to follow all parking rules and regulations. TPS will issue special parking permits to service vehicles at the time of their registration, which will allow them to park in designated spaces. 
   

• Contractor vehicles must be registered, regardless of being parked within or outside of the project’s construction fence. Heavy machinery such as cranes, dump trucks, and front-end loaders are exempt from registering. 
   

• If you require access via Elm Drive, authorization from Transportation and Parking Services is required at least two business days in advance.

  • Service providers and delivery vehicles, please have your Princeton University sponsor reach out to The Service Point to request access.
     
  • Faculty and staff, please have your department administrator or manager contact The Service Point to request access.

• Absence of signage is NOT authorization to park. Parking is only permitted within signed lots and in unrestricted stalls within painted parallel lines. See the parking map for authorized parking areas. 
   
• Parking on grass, sidewalks, roadways, or in loading docks is prohibited. 
   
• "University Service Vehicles Only" parking is reserved for fleet vehicles owned by the University while actively in use on University business. Personal vehicles belonging to faculty, students, staff, contractors, and visitors are NOT permitted to park in these spaces. Illegally parked vehicles may be cited.
   
• Motorcycles must be registered and have a current virtual permit to park in assigned motorcycle parking spaces. If no designated motorcycle space is available, please use a legal space.

• Faculty and staff permit holders may park in their designated zone overnight with a valid University parking permit for up to two consecutive days. Overnight parking after two consecutive days, when traveling on University business, is available by contacting The Service Point in advance.
   

• After two consecutive days of parking in a commuter lot or garage, a vehicle is in violation and may be cited.
   

• Overnight camping/sleeping in vehicles is prohibited on University lots. 
   

• All vehicles parked on University property must be in an operable condition. Inoperable vehicles should be removed and stored elsewhere at the owner’s expense. This does not include emergency repairs, such as jump starting a battery or repairing a deflated tire, or when the vehicle can be moved during the same day. 

In order to maintain safety for all and livable space for Princeton’s undergraduate residents, unauthorized vehicles are restricted from accessing Princeton’s historic core at all times.

• Visitors on university business may park for the day in Stadium Drive Garage and walk or take TigerTransit to many campus locations, including the Admissions Information Center, Nassau Hall, or Firestone Library.
   
• If you require access via Elm Drive, authorization from Transportation and Parking Services is required at least two business days in advance.
   
  • Service providers and delivery vehicles, please have your Princeton University sponsor reach out to The Service Point to request access.
     
  • Faculty and staff, please have your department administrator or manager contact The Service Point to request access.

• Electric vehicles (EV) with an active University parking permit and registered through the TPS electric vehicle charging form can use EV charging stations when requiring a charge.

• TPS requests that commuters limit charging to no more than two sessions per week.
   

• Residents at University-owned housing with active permits may access charging stations nightly after 4 PM and on weekends.
   

• EVs may not utilize other sources (e.g., outlets in garages or surface lots) to charge their vehicle. 

Parking citations may be issued for vehicles in violation of university's parking policies. Individuals with unpaid citations on record are ineligible to get a new parking permit, renew their parking permit or receive one of the Revise Your Ride commuter benefits, until all outstanding fees have been paid.

For information about paying or appealing a citation, please see Citations and Appeals.

• Vehicles parked in restricted areas without a permit or otherwise impeding access to any area of campus may be booted or towed at the owner’s expense. Examples include:
   
  • Vehicles parked in or obstructing use of an accessible space, ramp, curb cutout, patient space, delivery zones/loading docks, closed lots, fire hydrant/fire lane. 
     
  • Vehicles parked in campus parking facilities for more than two consecutive days without approval. 
     
  • Vehicles with outstanding citations. 
     
  • Vehicles booted for 48-hours without resolution or contact from owner. 
     
• Towed vehicles may be relocated to another lot on campus for a fee of $150 at the owner’s expense. Any vehicle towed at Princeton University that is not retrieved within 48 hours (about 2 days) will also encumber a fee of $25 per day. 
   
• Towed vehicles unclaimed after 90 days will be disposed. 
   
• For information regarding a towed vehicle between the hours of 9 AM and 5 PM, Monday-Friday (summer hours 9 AM to 4:30 PM), please contact The Service Point at 609-258-8300. After hours and on weekends and University holidays, contact the Department of Public Safety at 609-258-1000. 

• TPS utilizes license plate recognition (LPR) technology for parking and access control. The University’s LPR terms are available here.
   
• License plates (front or rear) must be easily and clearly visible from the drive lane when parked. Vehicles without a front license plate must park head-in only. The following license plate-related issues will result in a citation.
   
• Vehicles without a front plate NOT parked head-in. 
   
• License plates displayed behind objects (bike racks, brush or bumper guards, covers, etc.) or on a vehicle dashboard or window.
   
• License plates that are not readable due to peeling, fading, or other damage.
   
• If vehicle or license plate information changes, plate information must be updated in the customer portal and linked to an active permit. 

• All citations and expenses related to violations, including fees associated with towing or booting of vehicles, are issued against the parking permit holder if the vehicle has a University permit. 
   
• For non-University registered vehicles, the vehicle owner is responsible for all violations and citations. 
   
• Frequent violations or disregard for University parking rules and regulations will result in the revocation of University parking privileges at the discretion of the Director for Transportation and Parking Services. 
   
• Princeton University and TPS are not responsible for damage, loss of property, or theft of vehicles parked or towed on University property. 

Revise Your Ride incentive payments for Bike/Walk, Carpool, and Vanpool are paid out on in January and July, following participation during the 6-month incentive periods (Jan-June and July - December).

Benefits-eligible employees enrolled these programs may receive incentive payments each semester added directly to their paycheck (1st paycheck of the month if biweekly), provided the employee:

• Was enrolled in the program for last 3 months of the incentive period and was active in the program during the final month of the incentive period. (apply by March/September 15 for enrollment before April/October 1).
   
• Is commuting between their home and one of the University's New Jersey campuses at least 3 days per week on average. Employees working remotely as their primary work arrangement are not eligible to receive this incentive.
   
• Completed the end-of-semester verification survey (sent by email in Dec and June) when prompted or before the close of the next incentive period (6 months). Payments will not be processed for incentives more than 6 months past the close of the incentive period.

Revise Your Ride commute benefits are in lieu of regular campus parking privileges. Employees with outstanding parking citations are ineligible for incentive benefits.

Daily permits are required when:

• A participant in the Bike/Walk, Bus Pass, 50% Transit Reimbursement, or Vanpool benefits drive their personal vehicle to campus
   
• A carpool must park a second vehicle on campus.

Revise Your Ride participants are provided with 12 daily parking permits per semester.These permits are only valid for the day and vehicle selected and in select lots on campus. Each daily permit pass is active for 24 hours cannot be reused. Permits may be activated the day before or the day of using My Transportation, Transportation and Parking Services' online hub.

Shared carpool permits are issued to all participants in a registered Revise Your Ride carpool. A shared virtual parking permit allows for one vehicle at a time to park in:

• A general space in the zone(s) assigned to members of your carpool. Zones are assigned based on primary building location.
   
• A designated car/vanpool parking space on campus.

If a carpool needs to drive separately, at least one member of the carpool must activate a daily parking permit. Carpool participants with more than one car on campus and no active daily permits may be cited.

If a carpool consists of at least one University employee and a University graduate student:

• Carpool permits will not be valid for car/vanpool spaces.
   
• Carpool permits will only be valid for the Purple Zone if a staff or faculty member in the carpool (1) works in a building assigned to the Purple Zone AND (2) has a personal vehicle registered with the University and will be serving as the primary carpool driver. TPS may ask for proof of vehicle ownership as part of verifying a carpool application.

Participants in the bus pass program may receive up to one replacement pass per year if original pass was lost or damaged.

The purpose of TigerTransit is primarily to connect University buildings and facilities to one another, to parking and to public transit, at the times when students, faculty, and staff must travel among them.

To achieve this purpose, TigerTransit routes, stops and schedules are designed following the below principles:

• Most routes will be expected to attract 20 boardings per service hourOne hour that an individual bus is operating in service for people to ride. If two buses are used on a route for an hour each, whether at the same time or at different times, that is two service hours.. This is because they are designed to:
   
  • Offer high frequencies where large numbers of people need to travel over distances too far to walk.
     
  • Provide for direct, non-circuitous travel among major destinations.
     
  • Serve two-way demand and overlapping markets with the same route when possible
     
• Some routes will be needed even if they do not attract 20 boardings per service hour, in order to:
   
  • Connect students to classes that are not easily reachable by walking or bicycling.
     
  • Serve those who have difficulty walking or riding fixed-route transit.
     
  • Support student life by providing access to shopping and services.
     
• Services that meet these guidelines may require people to walk up to 10 minutes from a University building to reach a TigerTransit stop.
   
• For University buildings that are costly to reach with transit or where very few people can be expected to ride, the University will find other more effective ways to help people commute and move around throughout the day.

All fleet vehicles will be safe, ADA accessible, and easily recognizable as part of the TigerTransit network with University branding or signage. 

• Passenger Capacity: varied
• Wheelchair Capacity: 2
• Accessibility Features: Flip-out ramp; Low floor kneeling
• Bike Rack: Front-load rack, holds up to 2 bikes
• Tracking: Web-based GPS real-time tracking (TripShot)