Parking

Parking Permits

Every employee or student, including wage payroll, part-time, and fixed-term, wishing to park a vehicle on campus must have a valid parking permit. Parking permits are specific to the employee and vehicles to which they are registered. Permits may not be transferred, sold or duplicated. Full-time faculty and staff parking permits are obtained through their Departmental Parking Chair and must be returned if the employee is terminating employment, changing administrative units, or going on leave of any kind.

Obtaining a Parking Permit

Full-Time Faculty and Staff

• New to Penn State full-time faculty and staff receive a temporary parking permit at their Onboarding Session which is good for 7 days. During that 7-day period, the new employee must log-in to the Transportation Parking Portal at online registration portal and add their vehicle information to the system prior to obtaining a parking permit from their Departmental Parking Chair. For instructions, please refer to the Manage Vehicle and Account Information document.
• New to Engineering or Changing Administrative Units full-time faculty and staff should be sure their vehicle information is up to date. To do so, log-in to the Transportation Parking Portal at online registration portal and review the information. For instructions, please refer to the Manage Vehicle and Account Information document. Then, contact your Department Parking Chair to obtain a permit.

Part-Time/Wage Payroll Employees

Parking permit applications for part-time and/or wage payroll employees are processed by the University Transportation Services Office. Wage payroll employees wishing to apply for parking should visit the University Transportation Services Office:

1st Floor Eisenhower Parking Deck
Open Monday-Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
814-865-1436
parking@psu.edu

Students

All students (undergraduate, graduate, continuing education, part-time, full-time, or visiting) wishing to use parking facilities at University Park, including Innovation Park and the Technology Support Building, must register their vehicle with Transportation Services and, while parked on campus, properly display an authorized parking permit. Students wishing to apply for parking should visit the University Transportation Services Office:

1st Floor Eisenhower Parking Deck
Open Monday-Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
814-865-1436
parking@psu.edu

Updating Parking Permit Vehicle Information

To add a new vehicle, remove a vehicle, or change vehicle information for your parking permit, please use the Transportation Parking Portal at online registration portal. For instructions, please refer to the Manage Vehicle and Account Information document.

Updating Email Address, Mailing Address and Phone Number

When updating your vehicle information, please check your email address, mailing address and phone number information by using the respective management tools located at the online registration portal main menu. If any of this information is incorrect, please update the information in WorkLion, the University’s Human Resources System. These updates are automatically downloaded into the Transportation Services Office database each day.

Returning Parking Permits

Parking permits are the property of Penn State and must be returned when no longer needed to the department from which they were issued. Below are detailed instructions:

Full-time faculty and staff who have terminated employment, are on leave, or are not working over the summer months, must return their parking permit to their Departmental Parking Chair unless other provisions have been made. If the permit is not returned on the last day of employment, the individual will be held accountable for the fee of the permit.

Part-time/Wage Payroll employees and students who no longer wish to park on campus must return their permit to the University Transportation Services Office:

1st Floor Eisenhower Parking Deck
Open Monday-Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
814-865-1436
parking@psu.edu

Motorcycle Parking Permits

Faculty and staff who wish to park a motorcycle on campus must first register for a faculty/staff parking permit, then have their motorcycle registered for use with that permit. Once registered, display of the permit is not required on the motorcycle. However, only one vehicle or motorcycle associated with a permit may be parked on campus at any given time.

Motorcycle-only permits are no longer available.

CATA’s RIDEpass

As an alternative to parking on campus, the Centre Area Transportation Authority (CATA) offers the RIDEpass, which issues Penn State faculty, staff, and graduate students discounted bus passes, good on all CATA bus routes in the State College area. For more information please visit transportation.psu.edu/ridepass-employees.

Additional Parking Information

For additional parking information, please reference the University’s parking webpage at transportation.psu.edu.