Carpool parking
The Transportation & Parking (T&P) Office offers carpool parking in the Clayton Garage and on select surface lots as availability allows. T&P will issue a garage-specific access card or surface lot-specific permit at the time of registration. After registration, the Facilities Integrated Service Center (FISC) will forward all demographic information to RideFinders to secure the RideFinder Guaranteed Ride Home benefit in case of an emergency.
The carpool program prohibits more than one vehicle at a time in/on a WUSM parking facility from utilizing a parking access card or permit. If misrepresentation or misuse of the carpool program is found, WUSM reserves the right to revoke all parking privileges for the current year.
It is the responsibility of all carpool participants to notify the Facilities Integrated Service Center (FISC) when leaving WUSM employment, taking a leave of absence or changing the registered riders in a carpool.
To register for carpool parking, please visit the FISC on the first floor of the Mid Campus Center, 4590 Nash Way, St. Louis, MO 63110.
Click here to preview the Carpool Application form. This form can be filled out in advance and turned into the FISC desk.
Guaranteed Ride Home
Guaranteed Ride Home (GRH) provides subsidized rides home from campus in the case of an emergency.
WashU participates in Guaranteed Ride Home (GRH), a program that provides WashU employees and students who use smart commuting options with subsidized one-way rides home from campus (up to four per year) in the event of an emergency, sickness, or unscheduled overtime You must enroll in the program to be eligible.
Eligible circumstances
- Sickness – personal, child, spouse or other immediate family members
- Unscheduled overtime – when required to work beyond your normally scheduled hours without prior notice
- Personal emergency – includes theft, fire or other personal emergency requiring immediate attention.
- Unanticipated absence of carpool driver (for carpool commuters through RideFinders)
The program is not able to provide rides due to rescheduled appointments like doctor visits, acts of nature such as a snowstorm or power failure, working late if you have at least one day of notice or inability to arrange transportation home due to day-to-day planning issues.
Carpool or vanpool commuters
RideFinders offers Guaranteed Ride Home (GRH) reimbursement to registered carpool participants when using a ride-hail service such as Uber or Lyft in addition to a taxi service provider.
Eligibility must be verified by the Facilities Integrated Service Center (FISC) or RideFinders staff. Reimbursements are limited to a maximum amount of $125 per one-way trip and may take up to 6 weeks to receive. Gratuity is not reimbursed.
To qualify for the GRH, you must be a member of a registered carpool or RideFinders vanpool or be a registered Madison County Transit (MCT) Express bus rider.
To request a GRH voucher, please contact the FISC at 314-362-3100 or Ridefinders at 314-743-7561. Please visit the FISC in the Mid Campus Center 1st floor lobby to obtain the voucher. You must present a voucher to the taxi driver to secure a ride for no out of pocket cost. Participants using an advanced voucher must call a RideFinders GRH Taxi Provider. Ridefinders recommends you provide the cab company a call back phone number and allow ample time for the taxi to arrive.
If you would like to pay for the ride and be reimbursed, please submit a validated voucher and a copy of the original receipt to ridefinders@mct.org or mail to RideFinders, One Transit Way, PO Box 7500, Granite City, IL.
For more detailed instructions log in at ridefinders.org and visit the documents page or call 314-743-7561.
Mass transit, biking or walking
Citizens for Modern Transit (CMT) provides a GRH program for those who use transit, bicycling or walking as their main commuting method. In the case of an emergency, this program reimburses the commuter for 80 percent of the cost of the ride home up to $60. The ride must start at your work/school location and end at home (or at another location if necessitated by the type of emergency). To be eligible, register online.
To use a Guaranteed Ride Home from Citizens for Modern Transit:
- Order your taxi, Uber, Lyft, or Enterprise Rent-A-Car and pay the entire cost upfront.
- To book a rental car with Enterprise, go to enterprise.com or call 1-800-Rent-A-Car. Use discount code 01GRH23 and PIN, “CMT.” The car may be returned the next day.
- Submit your receipt to rides@wustl.edu with a short description of why you needed GRH along with your WashU ID number and where the check should be sent. Transportation & Parking will submit the receipt to the CMT and you can expect your reimbursement via check within two weeks.
For additional information, contact CMT at info@cmt-stl.org or 314-231-7272.