With Spot Swapper, while it cant create more spaces, students can mitigate the chaotic rat race of parking by sharing the location of soon-to-be-free spots one-to-one in realtime.
When you want a spot, choose your parking lot(s) and wait to be matched with someone whos about to leave a spot. You receive marker indicating which space will be yours and a description of the vehicle to help you find it. Just wait by the car, poised to park as usual, and in moments your match arrives to vacate your spot!
When youre leaving, mark your spot as you leave class (if you parked with the app the marker is saved). Signal that youre leaving as you approach the lot and the student youre matched with will be waiting with gratitude!
To incentivize playing both roles, points are required to park, which are earned by successfully swapping your space to someone later.