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Carpooling

Brown University encourages commuting community members to form carpools to save money, reduce the number of cars that come to campus, and improve their chances for a parking lot assignment.

  • A Brown-only carpool forum to find other Brown community members who want to form or join a carpool is now available through the Transportation Bulletin Board. If you don't find anyone in your area on the Brown-only forum, check out the RIPTA Alternet carpool service.
  • A carpool is made up of a minimum of two Brown employees who do not live at the same address. (Non-Brown employees may be in the car pool after this requirement is met.)
  • Carpool parking is paid via proportionate pre-tax payroll deduction.
  • A carpool may either wait list itself and be placed at the top of the University waiting list or a lot assignment belonging to one of the members of the carpool may be converted into the carpool’s lot assignment.
  • To register a carpool, contact the Transportation Office.
  • Each member of the carpool must complete a Carpool Application .
  • One hangtag will be issued to the carpool. Occasionally carpool members may need to park in the Visitor Parking Lot if their ride is unexpectedly unable to come to work one day and there is insufficient time to pick up the hang tag. Each carpooler will receive one free one-day parking permit per year to save for use in this situation.
  • A carpool ceases to exist when there is only one member left, at which time the carpool's lot assignment reverts to the Parking Office. If the last remaining carpool member was assigned to that lot prior to the formation of the carpool, and his/her assignment was converted into the carpool's lot assignment, then that he/she may retain the lot assignment and pay for it individually as before.
  • New members may be recruited into the carpool, thus preserving the carpool's lot assignment, and providing the carpool with a recruiting tool to continue to exist.
  • To exit a carpool, contact the Transportation Office in order to stop the parking payroll deduction.
  • In order to qualify for a Guaranteed Ride Home, carpool members must register with RIPTA Commuter ResourceRI.