Transportation Programs/Bus and Train

Clipper Card

Make commuting to work and traveling around the Bay Area easy.

Riding transit is now easier with Clipper card. Stanford Medicine provides eligible employees with a Clipper card pre-loaded with a Caltrain Go Pass, a VTA SmartPass, and an AC Transit EasyPass for unlimited travel, any time, on Caltrain, VTA, and AC Transit.

ALL BAY AREA TRANSIT

LOAD PASSES OR CASH

LINK PRE-TAX BENEFITS

TAP-AND-RIDE

Clipper is the all-in-one transit card making it easy to ride transit in the Bay Area

Your Clipper card can hold transit passes and tickets, cash value, or any combination. Fares loaded as cash can be used on any participating transit system. You can even use your Clipper card to pay for parking at transit stations, for bike parking, and as an access key to bike share.

Clipper card is pre-loaded. Stanford Medicine provides eligible employees with a Clipper card that is pre-loaded with a Caltrain Go Pass, VTA SmartPass, and AC Transit EasyPass* for unlimited Bay Area travel.

Add value. Employees can use pre-tax dollars to load transit passes and tickets for other Bay Area transit agencies on Clipper card, and can use pre-tax dollars to add money to pay for parking at transit. Employees can also add funds to pay for bicycle parking and bike share on Clipper card.

To see if you are eligible to receive a Caltrain Go Pass on your Clipper card, or to request a new Clipper card, head to the Luum Commuter Platform* below:

Stanford Health Care Staff: https://shc.luum.com/
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Staff: https://smch.luum.com/

* AC Transit EasyPass is available only to benefits-eligible employees living in the East Bay.

* Please note: due to the Stanford University winter closure, No new transit pass requests will be processed between 12/12/2023 - 12/31/2023. Effective January 1, 2024, management and assignment of hospital staff transit passes will be overseen by Stanford Medicine Transportation Services (previously Stanford University).

Use your Clipper card on all major Bay Area transit systems, including

AC Transit
BART
Caltrain
City Coach
County Connection
FAST
Golden Gate Transit & Ferry
Marin Transit
Muni
Petaluma Transit
SamTrans
San Francisco Bay Ferry
Santa Rosa CityBus
SMART
SolTrans
Sonoma County Transit
Tri Delta Transit
Union City Transit
VINE
VTA
WestCAT
Wheels

If you are not eligible to receive a Clipper card from Stanford Medicine, you can request or pick up a card from Clipper card directly. Contact Clipper card at 877.878.8883 or visit https://www.clippercard.com for more information or to find Clipper card retail locations.