Beginning with the Fall 2025 semester, our new and improved electronic permitting system along with License Plate Recognition (LPR) eliminates the need for a physical permit. No more worrying about properly displaying your parking permit or picking up new permits for replacement vehicles. You will not receive a parking decal or placard this year. This latest technology will allow for your license plate to be your parking permit!
When a vehicle is parked on campus, the license plate is read by LPR readers mounted on a designated campus police vehicle or by a handheld reader operated by Campus Police. LPR works like a supermarket scanner with your license plate functioning as the barcode. When read, the numbers of your plate are automatically referenced against the parking database to verify proper parking privileges for the parking location. You are still required to follow all of our parking rules and regulations at all times to avoid being ticketed.
All motorists must now park with your license plate facing the drive lane. Because LPR technology only works if a license plate can be read by the LPR readers, it is imperative that your license plate always face the drive lane. If your state does not issue a front plate, you cannot back into a parking space. You are subject to being ticketed if your vehicle is parked without the license plate facing the drive lane of traffic.
Faculty/Staff parking permits are no longer non-expiring. All employees are required to renew their parking permits annually. Faculty/Staff parking permits will now expire on September 30th of each year.
On a yearly basis in September, all faculty and staff are required to log into our CARS parking portal to do the following:
- Confirm your current vehicle details are accurate
- Pay any outstanding parking violations
Motorcycle Parking
Faculty/staff members are eligible to register one motorcycle in addition to their two vehicle permits. Motorcycle parking is allowed in all faculty/staff parking lots.
Motorcycles must be parked in an actual parking spot, and cannot be left in garages for extended periods of time. This may result in ticketing or towing.
Faculty/Staff Parking Areas
- Lot 1: Faculty/Staff – Armstrong garage upper level
- Lot 2: Faculty/Staff – Armstrong garage lower level
- Lot 4: Faculty/Staff – Lot in front of AIMM
- Lot 8: Faculty/Staff – Administrative Services Building
- Lot 10: Faculty/Staff – First level side of T/W garage
- Lot 12: Faculty/Staff – Packer lot
- Lot 14: Faculty/Staff – Flat lot behind Decker/Cromwell garage
- Lot 15: Faculty/Staff – Maintenance Building
- Lot 16: Faculty/Staff – Eickhoff Hall garage
- Lot 18: Faculty/Staff – Forcina garage lower level
If you are unable to find an authorized parking space in any of the designated faculty/staff parking lots, please proceed to Campus Police for assistance.
Just as students cannot park in faculty/staff lots, employees cannot park in any student lot, unless there are specified F/S parking spots.
Please be aware of the following times when students may be in specific faculty/staff lots:
- Graduate students may park in faculty/staff lots on weekdays after 4:00 p.m. during the regular academic year with the purchase of a valid Graduate Commuter permit
- Graduate Assistant parking is available in faculty/staff lots at all times with the proper Graduate Assistant permit
Winter Restriction Lots
If a snow emergency is declared, an official TCNJ email will be sent to the campus community. Vehicles will have to be moved from the tops of the parking garages and there will be no parking on the flat lots between midnight and 6:00 a.m. for the duration of the snow emergency.