TRANSPORTATION IN NEW ORLEANS
Airport
A shuttle service is available to most of the hotels listed below. Click here for more information on the Airport shuttle and to purchase advanced shuttle passes. A taxi from the airport to the Central Business District and most other areas of the city costs $33 for 1 or 2 passengers and $14 per person for 3 or more passengers.
City Transportation
Within the city of New Orleans, a visitor can get to the symposium events on campus and at the New Orleans Museum of Art via personal vehicles, taxi, bus, or streetcar. For driving directions to the New Orleans Museum of Art, click here.
You may also get to NOMA on the streetcar line or by bus. Click here for information, schedules, maps, and fares for buses and streetcar lines in New Orleans. Click here to download a streetcar schedule, map, and list of fares.
Most hotels will arrange taxi service to take you to wherever you wish to go in the city, but it may be difficult to find taxis outside of popular tourist sites. Click here to download a list of taxi services operating in the New Orleans area.
Tulane University
To learn more about the location of the Saturday and Sunday events, you can view an interactive map of Tulane’s uptown campus (or click here to download a pdf version).
Visitors can take the St. Charles streetcar line to the south end of the campus. There is a stop in front of Dinwiddie Hall.
On-campus Parking
There are several on-campus parking options.
1) For Saturday or Sunday, parking on-campus is free except in permanent reserved spaces, all of which are signed as such. For weekdays, visitors may purchase a one-day parking pass from the Traffic office during business hours and from Public Safety after hours. Vehicles parked on campus must display a permit between 8am and 5:30pm, Monday through Friday.
2) Visitors may also pay to park on the ground level of the Diboll Complex or use parking meters located throughout campus. Parking permits are not required when parking in timed or metered spaces, provided the time limit (posted on each meter) is obeyed and the parking meter is not expired.
3) Free parking is available at the University Square during the day. A free shuttle will drop riders at the central part of campus. The University Square shuttle service operates Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. – 6 p.m. and runs approximately every twenty minutes. For additional parking information call 504.865.5381.
4) It is sometimes possible to find street parking in the neighborhood surrounding campus. Be aware that much of the street parking has a two hour limit.