What's New in 2009-2010
Faculty and Staff Permit Sales/Renewal
No Price Increase on Blue, Yellow, or Orange Permits
Due to the current economic challenges, the University has chosen to not increase the permit fees for Blue, Yellow or Orange permits. Gold permit fees will increase 4.5% as previously scheduled.
New this year, faculty and staff who currently possess an active 2009 parking permit will be contacted via postcard and e-mail of either the automatic renewal of their AVI permit or instructions to order their 2010 permit online. Hardcopy applications will not be mailed.
- Permit holders who now use a Blue or Yellow Automatic Vehicle Identification (AVI) permit, and have payroll deductions, will receive a postcard at their campus address and an e-mail indicating the amount of their automatic payroll deduction for the new permit year. No other action on the part of the Blue or Yellow AVI holder is required.
If you wish to change your permit option, you will need to return your AVI permit to Parking & Transportation Services at 777 North University Avenue (second floor) before making a new selection. - Physicians and others identified as having exceptional parking needs who currently possess a Gold AVI device, and have payroll deductions, will receive a postcard at their home address and e-mail indicating the amount of their automatic payroll deduction for the new permit year. No other action on the part of the Gold AVI holder is required.
- All other permit holders, including those that obtained a 2009 Gold permit through the Gold Lottery, as well as faculty and staff with Yellow or Orange hangtags or windshield permits, will receive a postcard at their campus address and an e-mail as a reminder to order their parking permit online or apply for the 2010 Gold Lottery.
To order your parking option, go to permits.pts.umich.edu. All payment options are available online, including payroll deductions. You will be required to log-in using your Kerberos password. The online application will be available starting April 23. We encourage you to order your parking permit before June 6 to ensure that you receive the permit before the start of the new permit year (July 1).
All postcards were mailed on April 23, and the e-mails will be sent on April 29.
If you do not receive notification of your AVI permit renewal, please contact the Parking & Transportation Services (PTS) office at 764-8291.
Those who are not included in the annual renewal application process, including research fellows, staff with less than 50 percent appointments and temporaries, will need to visit the PTS office (777 North University Avenue - second floor) to obtain their 2009-2010 parking option. New Parking Request forms (website address link) must be completed for these individuals.
Hard Copy Applications Still Available
If you do not have computer access or would prefer a paper-copy application be sent to you, please call PTS at (734) 764-8291 for assistance.
Gold Permit Lottery
Gold parking permit sales are capped each year. An annual lottery is held to distribute a set number of Gold parking permits. If you are interested in obtaining a Gold permit for the 2010 permit year, you must enter the lottery by submitting your name online at permits.pts.umich.edu by June 1. Lottery participants will be contacted via e-mail of the drawing results by June 5. If selected, you will receive a Gold AVI permit and be responsible for payment of the Gold permit fee ($1,443), which will be collected in 12 monthly payroll deductions of $120.25 starting in June. Please note: If you are selected to receive a Gold permit, but decline it, you will not be able to participate in the Gold Lottery for the next two permit years.
Gold permits issued to last year's Gold lottery participants will expire at the end of the day on June 30, 2009 and must be returned to the PTS office at 777 North University Avenue, unless the individual obtains a Gold permit again in the new lottery.
If current Gold parkers wish to change to a different parking tier, they should order a new permit online. Please remember that the Gold permit must be returned as soon as it expires (June 30).
Disable Parkers - Handicap Verification Permits
Handicap Verification permits will automatically be re-issued to any 2010 permit holder whose state-issued disabled placard/license plate does not expire prior to July 1, 2009. No additional paperwork is required. The 2010 permit will be mailed to your home address in mid-June.
If you received a new state-issued disability placard/license plate during the 2009 permit year and did not register it with PTS, please call (734) 764-8291 for assistance.
In order to park in the handicap parking spaces provided in University lots and structures during enforcement hours, the Handicap Verification permit must be displayed with the state-issued Disability placard/license plate and appropriate U-M color-coded permit.
Permit Drop Boxes
In order to assist you in returning your parking permit when you no longer need it, we have installed two Permit Drop Boxes in the following locations:
- 777 North University Avenue
Corner of Thayer & North University
First level by elevator Available from 7 am to 10 pm, Mon-Sat and 7 am to 8 pm, Sunday
After PTS Office hours, you will need to enter the building through Panera Bread and use their internal lobby door to enter elevator lobby. - UM Hospital
Hospital Security Lost & Found office
First Level of the University Hospital by the FCC and Trauma/Burn
The office is open from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily, but you can drop-off your device at any time. After hours the door is locked. To gain access use the intercom at the door, and the dispatcher will give you access.
Parking Option Return forms are placed near the Drop Box. Please complete the form, and put your permit inside. Take the top copy for your records, and then drop the form, with your AVI permit, in the Drop Box.
Carpool Program
The U-M Carpool Program is available again for the 2010 permit year.
- Carpoolers are able to share the expense of their one parking permit via payroll deductions. Each member pays his/her share of the parking permit by pre-tax payroll deductions.
- Carpools of 3 or more riders may request a signed reserved parking space, for an extra fee, specific to each pool, in a structure or lot in proximity to their workplace, where available. This reserved space fee will be added to the permit fee and may be included in the carpool members' payroll deduction amount. The rates for reserved spaces are as follows:
- Blue Permit reserved space - $300
- Yellow Permit reserved space - $200
- Orange Permit reserved space - $100
Of course, when you carpool, you save more than just parking permit expenses. You also save fuel, vehicle maintenance and vehicle depreciation expenses. In addition, you reduce parking and campus traffic congestion. And, you significantly reduce vehicle emissions and contribute toward the improvement of our air quality!
For Carpool parking permit applications, please contact PTS at umpark@umich.edu.
Greenride Ride-Matching
GreenRide is a web-based ride-matching system we now have for University faculty & staff to connect with other U-M faculty & staff to share the commute to work. There are two commute options in the system: carpooling or vanpooling. GreenRide helps you find carpool/vanpool partners by searching for other employees who live near you and have similar schedules.
Each interested employee can create an account in the system and submit his/her commute information (days/times of the week, start and destination addresses, interest in carpool/vanpool or both). The system will immediately run a query and find the other interested employees who closely match the schedule and commute route. Then, the individual may contact the other employees by email via the website. All information is kept secure and confidential. The only information available to the user is the first name(s) of the match the system generated. The system will also locate park & ride lots at which the poolers might meet. It also can generate printable maps for the pool's commute. The system provides updates if alternate routes are recommended for construction and other detours. Another helpful application of GreenRide is that its "commute tracker" calculates your savings in mileage, fuel and car maintenance expenses.
Go to http://umich.greenride.com to find other U-M colleagues to start a carpool or vanpool!