Roadify: Community-Powered Service Helps Users Find Parking

Roadify prompts users to text in the short code 'GIVE' to the service whenever they leave a parking spot, and users looking for a spot can text 'GET' to find recently available parking.
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Operating out of Park Slope, Brooklyn, Roadify is an experiment in developing user-powered systems for making public transportation and parking better. The mobile-based platform prompts users to text in the short code 'GIVE' to the service whenever they leave a parking spot, and users looking for a spot can text 'GET' to find recently available parking. The platform also operates over Twitter using the handle @roadify, where users can access the platform via direct message as well.

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In addition to the "Parking Around Me" service, Roadify is taking advantage of the MTA's recent release of route and schedule data, launching a similar "Buses Around Me" platform for notifying users how long they will have to wait at a bus stop until the next bus arrives.

[via Brooklyn Based]
[This post originally appeared on PSFK.com contributed by Kyle Studstill]

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