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City of Elk Grove
Transit Services (e-tran)
10250 Iron Rock Way,
Suite 200
Elk Grove, CA 95624
(916) 68E-TRAN
(916) 683-8726
Toll Free: 511
TDD/TTY: 711
FAX: 916-714-4635
transit@elkgrovecity.org
Transit Services (e-tran)
Commuter Alternatives: Vanpooling
A vanpool is a motor vehicle suited for occupancy by more than seven but less than sixteen persons, including the driver, traveling to and from work. Vanpool members share expenses.
There are different types of vanpool arrangements:
- Third-party vanpooling allows groups of employees to lease a van on a month-to-month basis from a vanpool leasing company. Visit VPSI or Enterprise or more details on their programs.
- Owner-operated vanpools are operated for employees by one of the vanpool members who actually own the van.
- Some employee vanpools use vehicles owned by their employer.
- Vanpooling is effective for commuters who travel at least 15 miles each way and live near each other or travel along the same route to work; and have similar daily work schedules.
- Vanpooling is an economical and comfortable alternative to driving alone, and vanpoolers can save hundreds of dollars each year.
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Vanpoolers are eligible to park in preferred parking spaces, which are typically closer to the employee entrance than other employee parking. Many shopping centers and business parks in Elk Grove have preferred parking for carpools and vanpools.
If you’re interested in vanpooling to work with others who live close to you (and work for your employer or another employer nearby), check out 511 or call 511. You’ll receive a free match list of vanpools in your area, or prospective vanpoolers to create a new vanpool.
You can also click here to see a list of available vanpools.
Currently the Sacramento Area Council of Governments (SACOG) is offering a $2,000 vanpool incentive program if you form a new vanpool. Click here for more details on this program.
