UO Faculty/Staff Guaranteed Ride Home
Program
A Guaranteed Ride Home (GRH) Program
serves as a key element in implementing a successful
commuting program – in the case of the UO, it will serve
as a cornerstone for expanding the current UO
faculty/staff user base for alternative modes of
transportation, such as: carpooling, LTD bus service, and bicycling.
A GRH program offers riders a convenient and
reliable mode of transportation -- alleviating much of the
fear and anxiety from being unable to respond to an
emergency (ill/injured child, family member, etc.) when
using LTD or riding a bicycle instead of driving to the UO.
The benefit of a GRH program can be
to increase the number of faculty/staff who use different
commute options to come and go from the University,
thereby reducing parking demand as well as improving
environmental quality by reducing congestion, as well as
reducing fuel consumption and air pollution.
How the program works:
- A
qualifying UO faculty/staff member is faced with an
emergency regarding an immediate family member that
requires the qualifying individual to leave UO
- The
qualifying UO faculty/staff member contacts DPS and
advises they have an emergency and need to utilize the
GRH program. An authorized member of DPS fills out the top half of the voucher
form, keeping the pink copy of the NCR form for the
files, and logs who, what, when, where on the GRH log
sheet. DPS
patrol personnel (normally a Parking Patrol Officer)
deliver the voucher (white and yellow pages) to the
qualifying UO faculty/staff member at their dept.
- The
qualifying UO faculty/staff member contacts an
appropriate service provider from the following list:
-
Budget Taxi Airport
City taxi Limousine
Airport
Ground Transportation
Airport Service
Classic
Cab Company
Crown Cab
Eugene-Springfield
Taxi
McKenzie Cab
Oregon
Taxi
VIP Limo & Taxi
Willamette
Taxi
Yellow Cab
- The
driver of the taxi is given the voucher to fill out.
After the trip is completed (may require
ferrying to multiple destinations such as pick-up
child at school and then take home or to the doctor,
etc.), the driver fills in the complete fare.
Only at the completion of the entire trip does
the driver fill this in and at this point the
qualifying UO faculty/staff member must initial the
fare (to ensure against abuse).
- Voucher
indicates to invoice DPS for the ride, and the
transport company will submit the bill for payment.
A limit of a maximum
of 4 vouchers per individual per academic year (10/01
through 09/30).
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