UCLA s Parking and Commuter Services staff can help show students the transportation options available to them to get back and forth from home to campus. Ridesharing is getting to and from campus other than driving alone in your car. Commuting students can guarantee themselves and their other carpool members a carpool parking permit if all of them simultaneously apply in person at Parking and Commuter Services. Many students living on campus use a one-way ticket to go home on a vanpool on Friday afternoons.
Many students live within a short walk of a bus line that comes to campus.
Commuter Express service. Parking and Commuter Services has information on the public transit lines that come to campus. Bicycles, motorcycles and scooters park free of charge at UCLA and are popular ways of getting around. To encourage bicycle riding, UCLA has more than 50 different bicycle parking lots throughout campus, while students riding motorcycles or scooters have more than three dozen separate parking areas to chose from. California state law requires all drivers and passengers on motorcycles and scooters to wear a DOT approved helmet, have a valid California Class M Drivers License, liability insurance, and valid vehicle registration when operating the vehicle.