TigerTransit is the

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial ...

shuttle bus service in and around its campus in

Princeton, New Jersey The Municipality of Princeton is a Borough (New Jersey), borough in Mercer County, New Jersey, United States. It was established on January 1, 2013, through the consolidation of the Borough of Princeton, New Jersey, Borough of Princeton and Pri ...

and other nearby areas of Mercer County. TigerTransit operates nine routes within the campus and around the city of Princeton. WeDriveU operates the service.

Routes

All TigerTransit routes are free of charge and open to the public. Main routes (1-4) only operate on during the daytime on weekdays, with two routes (N5/6) providing daily late night service and three routes (W5/6, WS) providing weekend-only service. The Princeton Junction branch of Route 4 essentially functions as an alternative to the

Princeton Branch The Princeton Branch, also known as the Dinky, or the Princeton Junction and Back (PJ&B), is a commuter rail line and service owned and operated by New Jersey Transit (NJT) in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The line is a short branch of the Northe ...

. The Weekend Shopper (WS) route combines service around much of the Princeton campus with service along US-1 to shopping centers in Princeton, West Windsor, and Lawrenceville.

Route list

The route list is current as of the Spring 2025 semester. Routes prefixed with W are weekend routes; routes prefixed with N are late-night routes.

Fleet

The Princeton University TigerTransit fleet is operated by WeDriveU, which has operated the service since February 2021 when the former operator

First Transit First Transit was an American transportation company. Headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, it operated over 300 locations, carrying more than 350 million passengers annually throughout the United States in 41 states, Puerto Rico, Panama, India an ...

lost their contract. The initial fleet under WeDriveU consisted of 14

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D40LF transit buses from Orange County Transportation Authority and various Ford cutaways. All former OCTA New Flyer D40LFs have since been replaced by fully electric buses ( NFI XE35 CHARGE NG), and the Ford cutaways are expected to be replaced as well in 2025.

Active

On order

References

External links

Official website
{{NYC surface transit Princeton University Bus transportation in New Jersey Transportation in Mercer County, New Jersey University and college bus systems