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Ride Green, Travel Safe

 The mission of Transportation Services is to provide innovative services for getting people to their destinations and keeping them safe in the process.  In an effort to display the many ways students, staff, and faculty can travel not just on campus, but also within the Tallahassee community, Transportation Services hosted its first Ride Green, Travel Safe Transportation Showcase on Thursday, September 1, 2011.

 If you were unable to attend the event, here are some of the services currently available:

• Zipcar, the world’s leading car-sharing company that specializes in serving university
  

  Senior Vice-President John Carnaghi presents the ZipCar.

  campuses. Florida State students and employees can visit the website to sign up for membership with Zipcar for access to one of a fleet of three cars. Membership is $35 per year and includes gas and insurance. As members, students and employees will have access to the vehicles 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Members can reserve a vehicle online or by phone then pick it up from a convenient on-campus location for use by the hour, day or weekend.

• Zimride, a private online ride-sharing network that matches FSU students who are headed for the same destination, but don’t know it yet. Faculty and staff also can join the network. As Zimride members, drivers and passengers each can post their desired destinations and departure times to find someone with whom to go across town or across the country.

• FSU Valet, a daytime, on-campus valet parking service. It will operate during fall-semester weekdays from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. from the roundabout at the end of West Call Street by the entrance to the Woodward Avenue parking garage. FSU students, faculty and staff members, and campus visitors can use service for $5 for up to three hours and $10 for more than three hours. Cash and major credit cards will be accepted.

• GOTCHA Ride (Green Operated Transit Carrying Humanity Around), a free eco-friendly shuttle service that uses electric carts.

• StarMetro, The City of Tallahassee’s bus service, allows FSU students, faculty and staff members to ride free anywhere in the city by showing a valid FSUCard. StarMetro also operates FSU’s Seminole Express shuttle service and the Night Nole, a free, nighttime off-campus bus service for FSU students from 10:30 p.m. to 3 a.m.

• Commuter Services of North Florida, a regional commuter assistance program with a mission to improve mobility for work and student commuters.