Donald Shoup   B.E. in Electrical Engineering, Yale Ph.D. in Economics, Yale Distinguished Professor of Urban Planning, UCLA   Phone: (310) 825-5705 shoup@ucla.edu

Donald Shoup is Distinguished Professor of Urban Planning at UCLA, where he has served as Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Director of the Institute of Transportation Studies. His book, The High Cost of Free Parking, explains how better parking policies can improve cities, the economy, and the environment. In the book Shoup recommends that cities should charge fair market prices for on-street parking, use the meter revenue to finance added public services in the metered neighborhoods, and remove off-street parking requirements.

Donald Shoup is a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners, an Honorary Professor at the Beijing Transportation Research Center, and the Editor of ACCESS magazine.

Curriculum Vitae

Video Links

SFpark video

Parking at Yale video

The Right Price for Parking video

StreetFilms Inverview with Mark Gorton video

Donald Shoup plays with parking fees and matchbox cars video

Parking Cash Out video

Interview with Brian Lehrer, New York City, December 12, 2007 video

Cruising for parking simulation

Eliminate Free Parking? video

Where should parking meter money go? KCET-TV

How Donald Shoup will help you find a parking spot video

Journalism

Parking is Hell, Freakonomics

Cheap Lot, Boston Magazine

Entrevista, Parking Brasil

Overnight Parking Permits in Lieu of Minimum Parking Requirements, Portland Oregonian

Curbing Disabed Placard Abuse, Los Angeles Times

Avoiding Stadium Gridlock, Los Angeles Times

Meters That Create Parking Spots, New York Times

Pricing Parking by Demand, New York Times

Parking Reform Gathers Speed, New Urban News

Interview, Traffic Technology International

Progress in Immobility, ITS Magazine

Gone Parkin', New York Times

Between the Lines, Los Angeles Magazine

We Paved Paradise, Salon

No Parking Anytime, Slate

Solar-Powered Parking Lots, San Francisco Chronicle

The Price of Parking on a Great Street, Parking Today

Putting Parking into Reverse, InTransition Magazine

Interview, Forbes India

Put Parking in Its Place, Los Angeles Times

Graduated Parking Fines, Los Angeles Times

Planners and Parking Requirements, ITEA Newsletter

Paying for Parking, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Selected Publications

Donald Shoup, The High Cost of Free Parking, Chicago: Planners Press, 2005 and 2011.

Chapter 1 of The High Cost of Free Parking

Book reviews of The High Cost of Free Parking

Gregory Pierce and Donald Shoup, "Getting the Prices Right: An Evaluation of Pricing Parking by Demand in San Francisco," forthcoming in the Journal of the American Planning Association, Winter 2013.

Donald Shoup, “Prefacio,” in Políticas Públicas Destinadas a Reducir el Uso del Automóvil: Manual para Implementar Sistemas de Parquímetros en Ciudades Mexicanas, 2013, pp. 6–9.

Donald Shoup, "Solar Parking Requirements," Access, No. 40, Spring 2012, pp. 38-40.

Donald Shoup, "Ending the Abuse of Disabled Parking Placards," Access, No. 39, Fall 2011, pp. 38-40.

Donald Shoup, Free Parking or Free Markets, Access, No. 38, Spring 2011, pp. 28-35.

Donald Shoup, Graduated Parking Fines, Access, No. 37, Fall 2010, p. 41.

Donald Shoup, "Putting Cities Back on Their Feet," Journal of Urban Planning and Development, Vol. 136, No.3, September 2010, pp. 225–233.

Donald Shoup, "Fixing Broken Sidewalks," Access, No. 36, Spring 2010, pp. 30-36.

Donald Shoup, "Graduated Density Zoning to Encourage Land Assembly for Infill Development," Zoning Practice, January 2009, pp. 2–7.

Donald Shoup, "The Politics and Economics of Parking on Campus," in Stephen Ison and Tom Rye (eds.), Transport Demand Management Measures: An International Perspective, 2008, pp. 121--149.

Donald Shoup, "Graduated Density Zoning," Journal of Planning Education and Research, Vol. 28, No. 2, Winter 2008, pp. 161–179.

Donald Shoup, “The Price of Parking on Great Streets,” in Abhijeet Chavan, Christian Peralta, and Christopher Steins, Planetizen Contemporary Debates in Urban Planning, Washington, DC: Island Press, 2007, pp. 52–56.

David King, Michael Manville, and Donald Shoup, "For Whom the Road Tolls," Access, No. 31, Fall 2007, pp. 2-7..

David King, Michael Manville, and Donald Shoup, The Political Calculus of Congestion Pricing, Transport Policy, Vol. 14, No. 2, March 2007, pp. 111-123.

Donald Shoup, "Cruising for Parking," Access, No. 30, Spring 2007, pp.16-22.

Donald Shoup, Chinese translation of "Cruising for Parking."

Donald Shoup, "Cruising for Parking," Transport Policy, Vol. 13, No. 6, November 2006, pp. 479-486.

Michael Manville and Donald Shoup, "People, Parking, and Cities," Journal of Urban Planning and Development, Vol. 131, No. 4, December 2005, pp. 233-245.

Michael Manville and Donald Shoup, "People, Parking, and Cities," Access No. 25, Fall 2004, pp. 2-8.

Donald Shoup, "The Ideal Source of Local Public Revenue," Regional Science and Urban Economics, Vol. 34, No. 6, November 2004, pp. 753-784.

Donald Shoup, "Truth in Transportation Planning," Journal of Transportation and Statistics, Vol. 6, No. 1, 2003, pp. 1-16.

Douglas Kolozsvari and Donald Shoup, "Turning Small Change into Big Changes," Access, No. 23, Fall 2003, pp. 2-7.

Jeffrey Brown, Daniel Hess, and Donald Shoup, "Fare-Free Public Transit at Universities: An Evaluation," Journal of Planning Education and Research, Vol 23, No. 1, Fall 2003, pp. 69-82.

Donald Shoup, "Buying Time at the Curb," in The Half-Life of Policy Rationales: How New Technology Affects Old Policy Issues, Fred Foldvary and Daniel Klein (eds.), New York: New York University Press, 2003, pp. 60-85.

Donald Shoup, "Roughly Right vs. Precisely Wrong," Access, No. 20, Spring 2002, pp. 20-25.

Jeffrey Brown, Daniel Hess, and Donald Shoup, "Unlimited Access," Access, No. 19, Fall 2001, pp. 40-41.

Jeffrey Brown, Daniel Hess, and Donald Shoup, "Unlimited Access," Transportation, Vol. 28, No. 3, August 2001, pp. 233-267.

Donald Shoup, "Instead of Free Parking," Access, No. 15, Fall 1999, pp.8-13.

Donald Shoup, "In Lieu of Required Parking,"Journal of Planning Education and Research, Vol. 18, No. 4, Summer 1999, pp. 307-320. 

Donald Shoup, "The Trouble with Minimum Parking Requirements," Transportation Research Part A, Vol. 33A, Nos.7-8, September/November 1999, pp. 549-574.

Donald Shoup, “Congress Okays Cash Out,” Access, No. 13, Fall 1998, pp. 2-8.