Where Your Dollar Goes

Transportation & Parking funding comes from two sources:

1. Permit sales, including park-and-pay
2. Citations. No tuition or state money funds any part of Transportation & Parking operations. By law, no state funds can be used for the creation or maintenance of parking lots or structures at public universities. 

The cost to build a surface parking lot averages roughly $4,000 per space. The national median for new parking garage construction is $18,599 per space. 

Transportation & Parking  employees and Texas Tech graduates developed the department's ePermit and eCitations programs in house. The programs save more than $131,000 annually compared to permit stickers, hangtags, and paper citations and contribute to greener, more sustainable operations. The programs even resulted in less employee turnover.

Transportation & Parking now licenses its programs to a third-party vendor, which sells the software to other municipalities, hospitals, and universities, including Baylor, Kansas and Florida International universities.