We'll get you home in an emergency, if you travel by sustainable modes.
We understand that emergencies can happen anytime, anywhere. When they happen while you’re at work, the UCSF Employee Emergency Ride Home program makes sure you’re covered. All UCSF employees who commute by sustainable modes are eligible to participate.
Emergency Ride Home Program (ERH) Guidelines
Eligible Participants
You're eligible for an emergency ride home, if you traveled to work by public transit, carpool, vanpool, bicycle or walking, and you have an emergency.
Qualifying Emergencies
- You suffer an illness, injury, or crisis
- Your immediate family member suffers an illness, injury, or crisis
- You have a break-in, flood, or fire at home
- You are asked by a supervisor to work unscheduled overtime, supervisor verification will be required, which causes you to miss a planned ride home
- Your carpool or vanpool vehicle breaks down to or from work
- Your carpool driver has to leave early or late and you are left without a ride home
- You are a vanpool driver and have to leave early or late, you will request an ERH reimbursement and the vanpool back-up driver will drive the vanpool members home that day
- Your commute bicycle breaks down on the way to or from work and cannot be repaired at your work site
Reimbursements
Travel expenses (on the day of the emergency only) -- up to $50 per trip, up to four trips per year -- eligible for reimbursement include:
- Taxi (not including driver tip)
- Lyft or Uber (not including driver tip)
- One-day car rental (not including gas)
- Public transportation (includes BART, Muni, etc.)
To submit a request, complete the ERH reimbursement request online and email your receipt, within 10 days of the emergency. Once approved, eligible expenses will be reimbursed via UCSF payroll.
Plus, San Francisco's Department of the Environment also offers a (non-UCSF) emergency ride home program. Learn more at: SF Environment Emergency Ride Home.
