{"id":263,"date":"2019-07-21T01:24:35","date_gmt":"2019-07-21T05:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aux.charlotte.edu\/knowing-where-to-park-just-got-easier\/"},"modified":"2023-04-14T11:24:51","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T15:24:51","slug":"knowing-where-to-park-just-got-easier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-aux\/news\/knowing-where-park-just-got-easier\/","title":{"rendered":"Knowing where to park just got easier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>If you had the right audio equipment poised over the UNC Charlotte campus on a weekday morning at 10:45 a.m., you might pick up a lot of whispers that sound a lot like, \u201cPlease, please, please let me find a close parking spot.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the peak time for parking demand on campus, so it\u2019s unlikely that the pleading chorus will break into songs of joy.<\/p>\n<p>But now commuters can take on campus parking with more than an under-the-breath hope for luck. Five students, with assistance from Parking and Transportation Services (PaTS), Business Services, and Facilities Information Systems (FIS), have developed a real-time mobile website that shows space availability for every parking deck.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/parkingavailability.uncc.edu\/\"><strong>Parkingavailability.uncc.edu<\/strong><\/a> started as a computer science senior capstone project for students Taylor Atkins, Dillon Brys, Kevin Huynh, Michael Long and John Sorensen. They shared their idea for a parking app with Doug Lape, PaTS director, and Gabe Gerber, business systems analyst for Business Services, who committed to assist and share parking data. Facilities Information Systems (FIS) developers used the students&#8217; concept and built the mobile-friendly website. <\/p>\n<p>After several months of trial, error, testing and waiting until counting sensors for the new Union Deck expansion were online, parkingavailability.uncc.edu is ready to go as a responsive, mobile website. While currently still in beta-stage, a full app within the MyPark app (mypark.uncc.edu) and Alexa and Siri integrations are coming. Surface lot data will be added to the availability list over time, as sensors are installed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Benefits and highlights<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Serves as a travel and parking planner, making it easier for commuters to know where to find deck parking. See what\u2019s available (just not while driving of course!) without driving around.<\/li>\n<li>Availability count updates are in real-time.<\/li>\n<li>Sharing the page to a smartphone home screen makes the website clickable like an app.<\/li>\n<li>Easy customer experience. Decks are listed clearly, with color-coded parking percentages; green for 40% or more open, yellow 10-39% and red, less than 10% available. <\/li>\n<li>Have a favorite deck? \u2018Star\u2019 it to appear first in your list.<\/li>\n<li>Created by UNCC students! How cool is that?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One of the students on the team, Michael Long, said that the most difficult part was the coding. The surprising part, he said, was \u201cactually seeing the numbers and how big a project it is to get all the sensors put in.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>Long, who graduated in December, relates to the angst of those who drive around campus searching for close parking in a panic because they\u2019re already late as it is. \u201cWith this [mobile webpage], you can just pull it up and see, \u2018Oh there\u2019s parking here!\u2019 and then actually get to class on time. Hopefully, it will reduce a lot of friction for students,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>PaTS has long had the goal of providing UNC Charlotte with a parking availability app. The commitment of Long, Atkins, Brys, Huynh and Sorensen along with the expertise and assistance of FIS turned out to be the right combination to bring it to completion.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you had the right audio equipment poised over the UNC Charlotte campus on a weekday morning at 10:45 a.m., you might pick up a lot of whispers that sound a lot like, \u201cPlease, please, please let me find a close parking spot.&#8221; That\u2019s the peak time for parking demand on campus, so it\u2019s unlikely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":265,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_clt_a11y_last_scan":"1778706759","_clt_a11y_has_violations":"1","_clt_a11y_violations":"[{\"id\":\"clt-lexicon-name\",\"impact\":\"minor\",\"help\":\"Use the correct UNC Charlotte name in this text\",\"helpUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/go.charlotte.edu\\\/clt-a11y-lexicon-name\",\"description\":\"The university name must appear as \\\"UNC Charlotte\\\", \\\"Charlotte\\\", or \\\"University of North Carolina at Charlotte\\\". 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