Transportation

UC Berkeley offers a comprehensive package of programs to UC Berkeley faculty, staff, and students to encourage more sustainable forms of transportation. Bus pass programs, transit subsidies, discounted carpool parking pricing, pre-tax purchases, regional ride-matching services, and a host of other benefits and incentives aim to reduce traffic, parking demands, and fossil fuel consumption while improving air quality.  

Performance highlights

• Faculty, staff, and students commute via walking around 9.6 million miles per year.

• The campus transportation survey found that over 8% of all campus commuters–nearly 15% of faculty, 6% of staff, 8% of students– ride a bike to campus.. This totals 10.1 million bicycle commuter miles per year.  

• The campus now maintains 15 EV charging stations in their parking facilities. The Recreational Spots Facility (RSF) garage has 8 SAE J1772 charger types, and the Upper Hearst Structure has 1. The Foothill lot has 6 BEAM EV ARC outlets (110V). For information on pricing, permits, and hours, see Berkeley Parking and Transportation’s EV Charging guide

• In 2022, miles flown on business air travel reduced by 30% compared to a 2019 baseline. Miles flown on business air travel are over 90  million miles a year.

Air travel represents the second largest source of carbon emissions on campus–25,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide each year! To address this, the UC Berkeley Office of Sustainability now sponsors and manages the Business Air Travel Carbon Mitigation ProgramThe program helps UC Berkeley find more sustainable alternatives to air travel when possible. When air travel is necessary, the program assigns a small fee for trips taken ($10 per domestic trip and $25 per international trip) and invests the money into projects that reduce the campus’s carbon footprint.