Vanpool!VA

DRPT has created the Vanpool!VA program to increase the number of vanpools and the use of vanpooling in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The Vanpool!VA program was developed with input from Transportation Demand Management (TDM), transit agencies, and vanpool companies.

A vanpool is a group of seven or more people who share a similar commute and schedule and join together to travel to and from work in a single vehicle. The vanpool group can be made up of people who live near each other or near a convenient pick-up location like a park-and-ride lot, and are co-workers in the same office or work near each other. The whole group enjoys the economy of sharing their commuting expenses and the convenience of sharing the ride to work.

The vanpool group rents or leases the van from a vanpool company and the vanpool riders pay a monthly fee based on the monthly lease and commuting costs (fuel, parking). Insurance, vehicle maintenance and repairs, and a backup vehicle are all covered by the vanpool company.

Vanpoolers are also eligible for Emergency Ride Home programs that provide free, or for a nominal fee, a ride home or to your parked car when one of life's unexpected circumstances occurs.