Getting around UAB is easy. The university’s parking system and Birmingham’s city bus system are set up to accommodate thousands of students, faculty, staff, and visitors, but they are also quite simple to use.
How to Register for Parking
If you plan to park a vehicle (including motorcycles) in a UAB lot, first you must register with UAB Parking and Transportation Services. There you can complete the parking permit record form and either pay a fee or make arrangements to be billed each month, semester, or year. You will receive a hangtag designating the specific lot on campus where you can park. (Motorcycles get a permit to attach to the front fender.) Be sure to display this hangtag in your vehicle and park in your designated lot, or else you might get a citation or fine. You can apply for temporary or permanent handicapped parking by providing documentation of your disability. Metered parking is available on some streets on campus. Just remember that your parking hangtag won’t cover you at meters, and meters have varying rates and time restrictions.
How to Leave the Parking System
If you no longer want to park at UAB, visit Parking and Transportation Services and return all parking materials (including hangtags, permits, decals, or parkcards). If you do not do this, you will continue to be billed for parking fees. You cannot cancel parking by phone.
Parking Tips
- Spaces in the parking lots are not reserved (unless posted as such) and are available on a first-come, first-served basis.
- Valid parking hangtags are required in all lots at all times.
- No parking zones and handicapped spaces are also in effect at all times.
- All city ordinances and state statutes governing vehicles apply as well.
- Parking on or over a line is a violation.
- Vehicles left for long periods of time will be towed.
- Violations can result in a citation or fine.
- If you have parking problems during the day, call Parking and Transportation Services at 934-3513. After 4:30 p.m. and on weekends, call the UAB Police at 934-4435.
For complete parking rules, a map of campus lots, plus fees and more, visit Parking and Transportation Services online.
Birmingham’s DART circulator buses are the most convenient way to get around UAB, Five Points South, and even downtown. Two routes cross the campus, and buses run seven days a week between 10:00 a.m. and midnight. Fare is 50¢ per ride. For details and frequency of buses along the routes, check out the DART map.