P&TS eUpdate

Parking & Transportation Services
eUpdate
March 2008 edition

You are receiving this Parking & Transportation Services (P&TS) eUpdate as a member of the Stanford campus community. We believe the content of this message, and other periodic updates, will be of interest to you as a parking permit holder and/or user of alternative transportation. We also want to share information with you to help the campus meet certain transportation-related goals in the General Use Permit.¹

Visit our website at http://transportation.stanford.edu for more information.

1) Enter our spring drawings by joining the Commute Club
Prizes include a $3,000 grand prize, $500 shopping spree, iPhone, iPods, and more

2) Can't join the Commute Club? Consider our part-time pledge
Prizes include a $1,500 grand prize, $200 shopping spree, iPods, and gift cards

3) Complete the Commute Mode Survey and enter more drawings
$1,000 grand prize, iPods, gift cards, and movie tickets for 41 lucky winners

4) Stanford now has six Zipcars at four campus locations
Join Zipcar for convenient vehicle rentals and receive $35 in driving credit

5) Winners announced for the Commute Club "Picture My Commute" contest
A complete list of fall-promotion winners also is available

6) A $20 gift card could be yours
Answer March's Factoid Quiz to enter this month's drawing

1) Enter our spring drawings by joining the Commute Club
Prizes include a $3,000 grand prize, $500 shopping spree, iPhone, iPods, and more

Join the Commute Club* and you will be entered in the Spring 2008 Promotion. If you are already a Commute Club member, you are automatically entered in our prize drawings!

Prize drawings include the following: $3,000 grand prize, $500 Stanford Shopping Center spree, iPhone, iPods, and gift cards, such as REI, Trader Joe's, Macy's, Stanford Bookstore, and more. Winners will be drawn weekly from March through June. Beyond the prizes, using alternative transportation means you are making a significant difference for the university, for your financial and physical health, and for the environment.

To join, visit http://transportation.stanford.edu/promo08.

2) Can't join the Commute Club? Consider our part-time pledge
Prizes include a $1,500 grand prize, $200 shopping spree, iPods, and gift cards

Pledge* to use alternative transportation or commute during off-peak hours at least two days a week during the spring quarter, and you will be eligible to win a $1,500 grand prize, $200 Stanford Shopping Center spree, iPods, and gift cards! (Peak hours are 7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m., and 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m.) Make a part-time pledge at http://transportation.stanford.edu/pledge.

3) Complete the Commute Mode Survey and enter more drawings
$1,000 grand prize, iPods, gift cards, and movie tickets for 41 lucky winners

If you are a Stanford affiliate (faculty, staff, and students in the Bay Area), you should have received an email this week inviting you to participate in the annual P&TS Commute Mode Survey. If we do not have your email address in our system, you should receive a printed version within one to two weeks.

When you complete the survey, you will have the option to be entered in our drawings for a $1,000 grand prize, iPods, gift cards, and AMC movie tickets, or you may submit your survey anonymously. There will be 41 lucky winners in our drawings! What's more, everyone who completes the survey will help Stanford assess and improve its transportation programs.

The deadline to enter the commute survey prize drawings is April 30, 2008.

4) Stanford now has six Zipcars at four campus locations
Join Zipcar for convenient vehicle rentals and receive $35 in driving credit

Three new Zipcars arrived on campus this month! Stanford now offers a total of six Zipcars at four campus locations: Tresidder Memorial Union, the Wilbur Lot at the corner of Escondido and Campus Drive East, The Oval, and the Lagunita Lot at the corner of Santa Teresa Street and Governor's Avenue.

Zipcar is the world's largest carsharing company, providing 24/7 access, convenient campus locations, and reduced hourly rates for Stanford affiliates starting as low as $8 an hour, which includes gas and insurance. Membership is open to faculty, staff, and students who are at least 18 years of age and meet Zipcar's eligibility requirements.

Stanford affiliates can join as a Zipcar member for $35 per year, with no application fee, and they will receive $35 in driving credit in their first year. Department memberships are available at $100 per department for an unlimited number of drivers (for business use only).

For more information, visit http://transportation.stanford.edu/zipcar

5) Winners announced for the Commute Club "Picture My Commute" contest
A complete list of fall-promotion winners also is available

Congratulations to Brian Tobin, IRT Educational Technology, who won the $1,000 grand prize in our "Picture My Commute" photo contest! The second place award of $500 went to Judith Alderman, Stanford Hospital Cardiac Care Unit, and the third place award of $250 went to Daniel Ramot, Neurobiology.

The following received Honorable Mention awards at $100 each: Anna Iluk, Continuing Studies; Sharon Ellsworth, Aero and Astro Operations; Kern King, Woods Institute for the Environment; Dong Wang, postdoc, Department of Biology; Carissa Little, Stanford Center for Professional Development; Sue Kellem, Graduate School of Business Alumni Relations; Vijoy Abraham, IRiSS/Academic Computing; Ming Ming Zhao, Pediatrics, Cardiology; and Alison McGuigan, postdoc, Department of Pathology.

Congratulations to all of our photo contest winners, and thank you to everyone who participated! We received more than 100 photo submissions, and the award decisions were not easy to make! Visit our website to view the winning photos: http://transportation.stanford.edu/picture/

The complete list of winners for the fall promotion also is available on the P&TS website: http://transportation.stanford.edu/alt_transportation/CC_winners.shtml.

If you didn't win a prize this time, don't worry. You have another chance to win by entering our Spring 2008 Promotion. Visit http://transportation.stanford.edu/promo08 to learn more.

6) A $20 gift card could be yours
Answer March's Factoid Quiz to enter this month's drawing

Here is this month's Factoid Quiz question: What is the reward for referring a friend to the Commute Club? A) Stanford Bookstore gift card, B) tote bag, C) $50, D) five free one-day parking permits. If you don't know the answer, visit our website to find out: http://transportation.stanford.edu. Submit your answer through our website quiz page at http://transportation.stanford.edu, and you'll be entered in our $20 monthly gift card drawing.

Congratulations to our February winner: Indira Choudhury, Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering, who won a $20 StanfordCardPlan (accepted at Stanford Dining, Stanford Bookstore, and other campus locations). She answered correctly that 48 percent of Stanford University employees said they take alternative transportation instead of driving alone to work in the 2007 commute survey. Thanks to Erinn Knyt, a graduate student in the Department of Music, for submitting this month's quiz question. She also wins a $20 gift card!

Each month, our team at Parking & Transportation Services challenges you with a new quiz question about our office, programs, and services.** Send us your suggestions for our Factoid Quiz question, and if your question is selected, you will win a $20 gift card! Fill out the suggestion form on our website: http://transportation.stanford.edu/quiz/quizQuestion.html. If you have a question that needs an answer, ask us directly at commuteclub@stanford.edu.

* Restrictions apply. Please see full eligibility requirements. Participants must live off campus, be on campus at least 20 hours a week, and work at a site that requires a Stanford parking permit to park (if employee), or be a registered student. Evening- or night-shift employees, and individuals who live on-campus are ineligible for the Commute Club and for the part-time pledge promotion. Commute Club members are ineligible for the part-time pledge promotion. Peak hours for part-time participation are 7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m., and 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. Employees: Be sure to get your supervisor's approval before changing your work schedule.

** Members of the Stanford community may play once each month. If you select the correct answer, your name will be added to a drawing at the end of the month. You are eligible to win only one prize per academic year, but you are welcome to complete the quiz each month. On the last weekday of each month, respondents with the correct answer that month will be entered in a prize drawing; the winner, chosen at random, will receive a $20 gift card. If your quiz question is selected, you will receive a $20 gift card.

¹ It is important for Parking & Transportation Services to communicate parking and alternative-transportation information to the campus. Under the 2000 General Use Permit (campus growth plan approved by Santa Clara County), the campus has a goal of "no net new peak-hour commute trips" over the life of the permit and must accommodate campus growth with a limited number of new parking spaces. Failure to achieve this goal will result in the campus being faced with costly mitigation measures.