Student Travel

 

Trying to get home?

 

 

BY CAR:

ABC Cab Company                                                                  (540) 564-1214

Yellow Cab                                                                                  (540) 434-2515

Nations Transport Limo Service                                           (866) 454-6678

Warren Hall Ride Board
                        This bulletin board is located in Warren Hall beside the Post Office and affords students the ability to post a need for a ride to a desired location or the ability to provide transportation to others.  This is also a great way to meet other JMU students!

 

BY TRAIN:

Amtrak                                                                                         (800) 872-7245
            Provides service to JMU students through the station located in Staunton, Virginia, a 20 minute ride south on I-81.  

 

         
                                                                                                           

BY BUS:

College Transit                                                                          (703) 229-4311
            College Transit is a bus service designed for JMU students.  They provide transportation for Thanksgiving and Winter Break.  In addition, they provide service during Freshman Orientation, Homecoming, Spring Break, and other chartered events.  They service destinations throughout Virginia and as far north as Massachusetts and Connecticut.  All trips start from and return to Godwin Hall at JMU.

Harrisonburg Department of Public Transportation      (540) 432-0492

 

Home Ride of Virginia                                                            (800) 553-6644
            Home ride is a bus service designed for JMU students.  Generally, they leave JMU on Friday afternoons and return on Sunday nights.  They also make special runs for fall break, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Spring Break, according to the University calendar.  All trips start from and return from Godwin Hall at JMU.  Their stop in Northern Virginia is in the south parking lot of the Vienna Metro Station.  In Charlottesville, they stop at the Student Activities Building at UVA; In Richmond, at the James Cabell Library at VCU; in Hampton, near the Montgomery Ward’s at the Coliseum Mall.

 

BY PLANE:

Charlottesville-Albermarle Airport                                       (434) 973-8342
            The Charlottesville-Albermarle Airport (CHO) is a non-hub, commercial service airport offering 50 daily non-stop flights to and from Charlotte, Philadelphia, New York/LaGuardia, Washington/Dulles, Cincinnati, Detroit, and Atlanta. CHO is served by Delta Connection, United Express (Atlantic Coast Airlines), Northwest Airlines, and US Airways Express (Piedmont Airlines).
CHO is located 8 miles north of the City of Charlottesville, 1 mile west of Route 29 on Airport Road Daily and hourly parking lots are conveniently located to make ease of use a given at the Airport.

 

 

Fly SHD                                                                                    (540) 234-8304
            The Shenandoah Valley Regional Airport provides the quickest, most convenient access to and from the beautiful Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.  Flights to and from the Pittsburgh hub of US Airways operate out of SHD.  These like the traveling public with major airline services.  SHD is negotiating with other commercial carriers to provide expanded service to the Valley and hopes that additional hub linkage and direct flights will soon be available.
Convenient to Harrisonburg, Waynesboro, and Staunton, as well as Augusta and Rockingham counties in Virginia, and Interstates 81 and 64, the Shenandoah Valley Regional Airport meets the travel needs of thousands of passengers each year for both business and pleasure.


Washington Dulles International Airport                           (703) 572-7200
                        Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD) is located in Chantilly, VA on 12,000 acres of land 26 miles from downtown Washington, D.C. The airport is connected to the region's highway system via an Authority-operated, 16-mile Airport Access Highway dedicated to airport users.

Washington Flyer                                                                     (888) 927-4359
            The Washington Flyer service is a wonderful compliment to Home Ride.  By combining these two services, a student can get to Dulles Airport; they simply take the Metro from the Home Ride Northern Virginia drop-off to the West Falls Church Metro stop, where they can catch the Washington Flyer shuttle to Dulles for $8.