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    Home About Doing Business Photography & Filming

Commercial Photography
and Filming

  • Summary
  • Transit Assets
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  • Intellectual Property
  • Requirements
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Commercial
Photography & Filming
on DART Property

Filming is permitted at most DART stations. In addition, you can use our trains, buses, and light rail vehicles to enhance your productions. Following all other rules, transit passengers are permitted to take hand-held still photographs or films for their own enjoyment and use. However, obtaining a permit from the DART communications office is necessary before taking pictures, videos, or creating artwork for any commercial use. As part of its core business mission of providing safe, convenient, and cost-effective transit services with employees committed to excellence and devoted to the needs of our customers, DART will determine whether it will approve or reject requests for commercial use.

Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) gets you around Dallas and 12 surrounding cities with modern public transit services and customer facilities tailored to make your trip fast, comfortable and economical. Our extensive network of DART Rail, Trinity Railway Express (TRE), and bus services moves more than 220,000 passengers per day across our 700-square-mile service area.

DART operates over 130 local and express bus routes serving Addison, Carrollton, Cockrell Hill, Dallas, Farmers Branch, Garland, Glenn Heights, Highland Park, Irving, Richardson, Rowlett, Plano, and University Park.

The DART Rail System provides fast, convenient service to work, shopping, and entertainment destinations in Dallas, Garland, Plano, Richardson, Farmers Branch, Carrollton, Irving, and Rowlett. Plus, our TRE commuter line links DART customers to DFW International Airport and Downtown Fort Worth.

Free parking is available at most rail stations and served by DART bus routes specially timed to make transfers between buses and trains quick and easy.

DART Moves You: Seamless Transit Across North Texas

DART Provides

Products and Props

  1. Rail System: There is one style of rail vehicle available.
» DART Rail light rail trains run mostly at-grade, with some aerial street crossings, some median running, and 3.2 miles of the subway tunnel. Overhead wires called "catenaries" power the light rail trains.
» Trinity Railway Express (TRE) commuter rail trains are diesel-powered, operating on a fixed right-of-way stretching between downtown Dallas and Fort Worth with some grade crossings.

  1. Buses. There are four styles of buses currently in use.

  1. Bus stop signs, public information signage and literature.

Locations and Settings

  1. At-grade and elevated rail stations and platforms

» At-grade platform stations: Parker Road, Downtown Plano, CityLine/Bush, Galatyn Park, Arapaho Center, LBJ/Central, Lovers Lane, Pearl/Arts District, St. Paul, Akard, West End, EBJ Union Station, Cedars, 8th & Corinth, Dallas Zoo, Tyler/Vernon, Hampton, Westmoreland, Downtown Rowlett, Downtown Garland, Forest/Jupiter, Lake Highlands, LBJ/Skillman, White Rock, Morrell, Illinois, Kiest, VA Medical Center, Ledbetter, Camp Wisdom, UNT Dallas, Victory, Downtown Irving/Heritage Crossing, West Irving, North Carrollton/Frankford, Trinity Mills, Farmers Branch, Bachman, Burbank, Market Center, Deep Ellum, Baylor University Medical Center, Fair Park, MLK, Jr., Hatcher, Lawnview, Lake June, Buckner, Las Colinas Urban Center, Irving Convention Center, Hidden Ridge, Dallas College North Lake Campus, Belt Line
» Below-grade platform station: SMU/Mockingbird, University of Dallas, DFW Airport
» Semi-elevated platform station: Medical/Market Center
» Subway station: Cityplace/Uptown
» Elevated platform stations: Spring Valley, Forest Lane, Walnut Hill, Park Lane, Downtown Carrollton, Royal Lane, Walnut Hill/Denton, Inwood/Love Field, Southwestern Medical District/Parkland

  1. Bus stops, bus shelters, Transit Centers and Park & Rides

Intellectual Property

DART regulates and controls the use of its intellectual property, including but not limited to its name, marks, logos, insignias, designs, and/or symbols (referred to collectively as "Intellectual Property").

Requirements to Film

1. Provide proof of appropriate insurance coverage:                     

     A Certificate of Insurance that names DART and the City of Dallas as additional insureds and includes
     all insurance requirements requested by DART and the City of  Dallas.


Coverage must include the following:

  •    Workers Compensation

Part A - Statutory, Part B - Employers Liability in an amount not less than $500,000 per occurrence

  •    Commercial General Liability

Limits of $1,000,000 per occurrence and aggregate for bodily injury and property damage listing DART and the City of Dallas as Additional Insureds

  •    Automobile Liability

Limits of $1,000,000 combined single limits (csl) listing DART and the City of Dallas as additional insureds.

For additional insurance information, please contact DART Risk Management at 214-749-3488. 

2. Completion of DART Contracts may be required. 

For more information, contact Lupe Hernandez at 214-749-2597.

3. DART's Image:

Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART), its employees, or its agents must not be presented in a negative light. In general, filming and photography must not portray public transportation as an unsafe and dangerous environment. Filming must not include scenes that contain the following: suicide; attempted suicide by train; pushing someone onto the tracks; a recreation of real-life traumatic and violent events (i.e., train crash, murders, etc.); a scene that endangers others through potential copycat action; and explicit scenes such as sexual activity or assault on transit property.

How Do You Get Started?

  1. Call DART Film Coordinator Lupe Hernandez (at least a week in advance) to discuss your project at
    214-749-2597.

  2. Fax a Letter of Intent, along with your script, storyboard, or concept detailing how and when you want to use our services.

    In addition, you will need to provide the following:
    • purpose of shooting (i.e., name of product or persons you are shooting)
    • Producer and Director names
    • number of crew and talent total
    • list of equipment for the shoot (no generators, we will provide electricity)
    • location or locations you would like to shoot

    fax Fax number: 214-749-3668, Attention: Lupe Hernandez

  3. A preproduction meeting will be held at DART headquarters with you and DART staff to discuss your plans and how we can accommodate them in compliance with DART's regulations and safety requirements.

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