It shall be the policy of the Eastern University Department of Public Safety to provide vehicular transportation or walking escort to students, faculty, and staff when it is practical to do so. The circumstances under which transportation/escort service is provided shall be generally limited to:

• Reasons of personal safety, such as those cases when a member of the community is traveling alone on foot from one point to another on the campus at a time when little or no activity exists in the general area. 

Generally, students will not be escorted for safety reasons prior to 9:00PM. Students should expect that response to requests for escort for safety reasons should be within fifteen (15) minutes. However, be aware that the officers could be attending to urgent matters from time to time, causing a delay in response time. It is not anticipated that such a delay would ever exceed twenty (20) minutes. 

• Public Safety will provide shuttle service to the SEPTA R100 Norristown High Speed Line, Radnor station with shuttles provided upon request. The Railway Shuttle is currently operated by request. Please call 610-341-1737 to request a shuttle. Make sure you have your student ID with you during the transport.
• There will be no pick up/drop off at the SEPTA R5 Paoli/Thorndale Regional Rail Line beginning on July 1, 2026.  Riders of this line are encouraged to use the St. Davids station and walk to the campus.
• A shuttle between the Eastern University North Campus (formerly Valley Forge) and St. Davids Campus (main campus) will run every 30 minutes.  Pick Ups will be located between the stadium and the residence apartments at the North Campus.  On the St. Davids Campus, the stops will be at Centennial Hall and HHC lower level.  This shuttle will be for the resident students at North Campus, Hocker Hall VFMC and the off campus parking for the first year residents who are permitted to purchase a parking permit.

Public Safety officers are authorized to delay or deny transportation and safety escort services to any member of the community in those cases when they are otherwise occupied with urgent campus security matters. In those cases, officers are required to offer a courteous explanation for refusing a request.

Nothing in this policy shall prevent a Public Safety officer from providing a safe escort to a member of the community by walking with them from one place to another on campus, when practical. Severe inclement weather may suspend all Shuttle transports and/or escorts.