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NEW YEAR, NEW COMMUTE - Car sharing campaign
Win £100 by Sending a Liftshare Request This January
To help you start 2026 in a money-smart, planet-friendly way, the University of Exeter is excited to partner with Mobilityways to offer a £100 prize.
Anyone who sends a request to share a lift before 30 January 2026 will be entered into the draw.
Why Liftshare?
Joining the University of Exeter Liftshare community means you can:
- Reduce your commuting costs
- Lower your carbon footprint
- Access free, dedicated car-share parking on campus
- Connect and collaborate with like-minded colleagues
The impact in 2025
Last year, regular car sharers made a measurable difference:
💷 £198.77 saved per sharer on average
🌍 15.66 tonnes of CO₂e saved
🚗 79,674 miles removed from campus traffic
Ready to join them?
Sign up today and find someone to share your journey to work.
- Visit the University of Exeter Liftshare page
- Join with your email address (@exeter.ac.uk, @exeterguild.com) and verify your account
- Download the Mobilityways app
- Log in to your existing account or select ‘Join Community’ and search ‘University of Exeter (Exeter Campus)’
- Add your journey to work and search for a match
- Found a match? Send a request to share!
Or join by clicking here: Join our community today!
Support & Resources
Watch this video: How to Liftshare with the Mobilityways App
Legal Terms For the Competition
Liftshare Members will be entered into the January competition (12th to 30th January 2026) if they join the University of Exeter community, add a journey and send a "request to share" during the relevant time period (from midnight to midnight, UK time). Actions can be undertaken via the Mobilityways App.
Members will only be entered once regardless of how many qualifying actions they complete. Winners will be selected at random from all eligible entries on the first working day following the end of the competition and will be notified by email, using the address registered to their Liftshare account. Prizes will be issued as digital gift cards via the Tremendous platform and can be redeemed at over 80 retailers, including Amazon.
Participation in the competition does not create any additional legal contract between Mobilityways and the entrant. Mobilityways accepts no responsibility for entries not received due to technical failures or for
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Car sharing
Driving a car is the least sustainable travel option, but carsharing can limit the impact on the environment. It reduces single occupancy journeys, carbon emissions, congestion and the cost of travel.
For those staff and students entitled to a standard parking permit, you can apply for a free car share permit (once you have created and confirmed your Liftshare Team).
To access free parking spaces and the University of Exeter Liftshare rewards please remember to authenticate every time you carshare to campus, at the point of picking up passenger/s (at the start of the journey, not on campus) through the Mobilityways app
Visit the University of Exeter Liftshare page to find out more and to register.
FAQs will be added below shortly.
Those eligible for a standard car parking permit are eligible to apply for a free car share permit.
Visit the car parking permit pages for details of how to apply.
- Drivers will be required to exchange previously held annual permits at the time of issue of a car share permit
- On days where the team does not share (i.e. holidays, sickness, etc), the lowest rate of pay and display fee will apply when used with an Authority to Park badge
To access a free car share permit please ensure:
- You are a registered University of Exeter Liftshare member
- You are in a Liftshare Team with 1 or more other member from the University of Exeter Liftshare community
- You have applied for and collected a car share permit from the University Parking team
- You have downloaded the Mobilityways app
- You successfully authenticate (with your Liftshare' teammate) each day you car share to get to campus which will validate the car share permit
- You display the car share permit on the days you have shared a lift
The Car Share Policy 2025 tells you how to:
- access the University of Exeter Liftshare community
- use the Mobilityways app to access the free parking permits and priority parking spaces
- access the Emergency Travel Home (staff only)
- access the App rewards
Car share permit holders are entitled to park in the 2+ car share spaces. On days where the team does not share (i.e. holidays, sickness, etc), non-car sharing spaces must be used.
The 2+ car sharing spaces (denoted by blue 2+ markings in the parking bay) are available at locations across both the Streatham and St Luke's campus. See the full list of 2+ parking locations.
All spaces will revert to standard parking after 9.30am and at weekends.
To access the priority car share parking spaces you must authenticate every time you carshare to campus with the Mobilityways app at the point of picking up passenger/s (at start of the journey, not on campus)
The Emergency Travel Home Scheme funds/part-funds formal Liftshare Teams (staff only) for a return journey home should their lift fail in the event of an emergency or problem.
Applicants must be the passenger; the scheme assumes that the driver will make their own arrangements.
The scheme works by retrospectively reimbursing the costs incurred by an employee’s return journey home via an alternative mode of travel. Please note that the individual Liftshare team member is responsible for arranging their own return journey.
Details, including terms and conditions, process, modes of travel and eligibility are available on the Emergency Travel Home Policy and claim form 2023.
Car Share Journey Planner
You can use car share for University business. Simply register your travel between Devon and Cornwall campuses using the Car Share Journey Planner and find a car share partner. See our Car Share Journey Planner User Guide.
For more information on business travel visit our Finance pages
Electric charging bays
Car Park B on Streatham campus has 30 electric charging bays. 10 bays (marked green) are currently reserved for electric cars when they are actively charging. There are an additional 20 electric charging bays, which anyone with a parking permit can use at any time.
How to use electric charging bays
- Parking in electric charging parking bays - if you are a permit holder you can register with Pod Point, who manage our chargers and log in with their app. Please not that visitors wishing to use the chargers must display a visitors’ permit issued from the department they are visiting.
- Using the charging points - download the Pod Point app, load it with money and plug in your car. Electric Charging Bays user guide.
- How much does it cost? - from 1 August 2024, to charge a car it costs 40p per kW hour, in line with the average domestic electricity rate. It takes under 8 hours to fill.
Park and Ride
Park and Ride offers a convenient and easy alternative to driving and parking on campus. Simply park for free at one of the sites and buy your ticket onboard.
Further information on parking can be found below
Please note there is no parking on campus for staff or students who reside within EX1, EX2 and EX4 (see exemptions)
