Your Campus is Connected. Are Your Parking Lots?
The Digital World Students Inhabit
Today’s students have been born and bred in a digital world. They’re accustomed to seamless technology in every aspect of their lives. They register for classes online, track assignments on mobile apps, and navigate campus with digital maps. But when it comes to parking, many campuses still lag behind.
In an era of connection, spending time circling crowded lots and rushing to class late isn’t just frustrating. It’s outdated. And it needs an upgrade to align with the rest of your campus.
Bringing Parking into the Digital Age
Today’s parking technologies, like the OpenSpace systems from Parking Logix, bring parking into the digital age. Students can access real-time availability data before they even head to campus. OpenSpace can guide them right to available parking, eliminating the search for parking. With smart parking technology, students receive the predictability and convenience they expect from the world around them.
Why Student Parking Matters
Your brochure probably doesn’t feature parking. And it’s not a key aspect that students research when they’re choosing a school. But it plays a major role in student life.
Student parking affects:
- Time management: Students balancing full schedules can’t afford to lose 20 minutes circling for a space
- Wellbeing: Streamlined parking reduces stress and frustration, so students arrive to class focused and ready.
- Equity: Parking guidance levels the playing field for commuter students not living on campus.
- Sustainability: Cutting down on students circling helps reduce emissions and supports a greener campus.
By updating parking management, universities show students that their time, wellbeing, and success matter beyond the classroom.
A Smarter Campus Starts at Arrival
Smarter campuses know how to seamlessly integrate technology into everyday life. From digital learning
tools to mobile apps, students and faculty have come to expect innovation from every aspect of campus life. Accordingly, Parking Logix helps extend that innovation to parking. Besides real-time parking data shared on digital signs, you can push data right to apps on drivers’ phones, making parking part of the connected campus experience.
Beyond the Student Experience
While OpenSpace gives your students the connected experience they expect, it does more than that. The data gathered by the system generates robust, real-time, and historical reports that can help you better manage campus parking.
With OpenSpace, you can:
- Identify usage trends, peak hours, and underutilized lots
- See insights into how and when your parking assets are used
- Plan strategically with data-backed insights into parking needs
When you gain access to clear, accessible parking data, you can make smarter, more data-informed decisions. Real-time and legacy data can help you ensure a better campus experience for everyone.
The First Experience- Closing the Loop and Connecting Your Campus
Many universities are invested in creating smarter campuses. But parking often gets overlooked in the process. Yet
parking is one of the first experiences that your students encounter every day. With OpenSpace from Parking Logix, you can turn parking from a daily frustration into a streamlined, data-driven advantage.
Smarter campuses don’t start in the classroom. They start in the parking lot.
Find out how you can make your parking lots as connected as your campus is with smart parking from Parking Logix.
