Bus Advertising

Payment for ad placement must be made via internal fund transfer for departments. Departmental fund and account numbers must be provided as part of the online request form submission. PaTS will charge your department the week the ads are placed.

The FedEx Office will charge for printing costs separately using the fund and account numbers provided. Alternatively, you may pay at the FedEx Office with a Pcard.

Student organizations must provide a check with their organization’s logo made out to “UNC Charlotte Parking and Transportation Services” before the advertisement can be placed. A PaTS representative will instruct you to deliver your check to the PaTS front office once your ad is approved.

Once PaTS receives your check, a representative will send your ad to the FedEx Office for printing and delivery. You must provide payment to the FedEx Office separately for your printing order to guarantee that your ad is placed in a timely manner.

The FedEx Office will accept an official student organization check (no personal checks), credit card, cash, 49er account or Student Government Association (SGA) fund code.

Advertisers must ensure that all text, data and information submitted for display as advertising content is true, accurate and complete; and that any use and display of the advertising content does not:

• infringe or violate any patent, copyright, trademark, service mark, trade secret, or other intellectual property rights of a third party, including any right of privacy or publicity;
• violate any federal, state or local laws or regulations or foreign laws;
• contain material that is pornographic, obscene, vulgar, defamatory, libelous, fraudulent, misleading, threatening, hateful, or racially or ethnically objectionable at the sole opinion of the University;
• condone or participate in any activities designed to harm minors in any way;
• condone or participate in activities designed to impersonate the identity of a third party; or
• be likely to result in any consumer fraud, product liability, tort, breach of contract, injury, damage or harm of any kind to any person or entity.

The University will reject any proposed advertising for weapons, tobacco products, or alcohol (including, but not limited to, beer, wine or spirituous liquor).

The University reserves the right to reject advertising that markets products or services that might compete with University‐sponsored activities, including student housing and dining, bookstore, auxiliary services, etc.

Advertisements that contain the University’s logos or trademarks without the written permission of the Office of Trademark and Licensing will not be accepted.

• To requests use of the University’s logos or trademarks please contact Rachel Skipworth at rachel.skipworth@charlotte.edu or 704-687-7683.

If the University grants written consent to use its name and/or trademarks for advertising, endorsement, or promotion, the University has the right to reject any such use proposed by the advertiser which in the University’s sole discretion violates the University’s standards of advertising or is inconsistent with the University’s role and reputation as a public institution of higher education.

In cases of doubt, the material to be posted will be submitted to the Director of Parking and Transportation Services or their designee who will make the final determination regarding acceptability.

Advertising space will be reserved on a first‐come, first‐served basis. Only one (1) reservation may be made per form submission. Multiple reservations require a new submission for each reservation request.

If Parking and Transportation Services approves your advertisement, they will contact you about printing.

• Only fully-approved advertisements will be posted.
• Allow two (2) business days for approval.
• Advertising is placed on and removed from Niner Transit buses on Sunday evenings.

Parking and Transportation Services will make a best-faith effort to post and properly secure advertisements in all buses, on time. However, due to the operational nature of our campus transit program, there may be occasions when ads do not get posted on every bus, as a result of fleet rotation for maintenance, cleaning, etc.

• Parking and Transportation Services will not be able to accommodate specific interior placement requests, but will make a good faith effort to distribute them equally throughout the buses.
• Due to bus rotation on routes, Parking and Transportation Services is unable to accept requests to advertise on certain routes only.

Cancellations must be received by Tuesday at noon on the week you plan to run your advertisement. Any cancellation after this time results in the forfeiture of the right to a refund.

You must provide your final artwork at the time of submission. PaTS is not responsible for changes or revisions to bus ads after approval has been granted. If changes are necessary, you must resubmit your ad and restart the reservation process.

If you would like to extend your bus ad reservation, please contact a PaTS representative at 704-687-0271 to see if space is available. If you would like to repost a previous advertisement:

• A new advertising application is needed for each advertising reservation.
  • Spaces may not be reserved more than two (2) months ahead of time.
• Advertisers must provide new ads each time they want to repost if the ad has been removed from buses.
• Parking and Transportation Services will not store, return or manage bus ads that have been removed at the end of an ad reservation period.
• PaTS is not responsible for lost or damaged advertisements.