Donald Shoup   B.E. in Electrical Engineering, Yale Ph.D. in Economics, Yale Professor of Urban Planning  Phone: (310) 825-5705 Campus Extension: x55705 shoup@ucla.edu

Donald Shoup has extensively studied parking as a key link between transportation and land use, with important consequences for cities, the economy, and the environment. His influential book, The High Cost of Free Parking, is leading a growing number of cities to charge fair market prices for curb parking, dedicate the resulting revenue to finance public services in the metered districts, and reduce or remove off-street parking requirements. His research on employer-paid parking led to passage of California’s parking cash-out law, and to changes in the Internal Revenue Code to encourage parking cash out.

Professor Shoup is a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners. He has been a visiting scholar at Cambridge University and the World Bank, and has served as Director of the Institute of Transportation Studies and Chair of the Department of Urban Planning at UCLA.

Curriculum Vitae

Recent Links

Interview on KCBS, November 1, 2009

Putting Parking into Reverse

The Shoupistas

Cruising for Parking in Toronto

Proposed California legislation on parking reforms

New Model Aims to "Green" Street Parking

The Price of Parking on a Great Street, Parking Today

Cruising for parking simulation

Cost of parking could be set by demand, San Francisco Chronicle

Parking in Sudoku

Spot Prices, Economist

Debate on off-street parking requirements, Parking Today

Washington Should Plan for People, Not Cars, Washngton Post

UC Berkeley Institute of Transportation Studies Interview, Part 1

UC Berkeley Institute of Transportation Studies Interview, Part 2

Can't Find a Parking Spot? Check Smartphone, New York Times

Fix Parking, Cure Congestion?, New York Times

How the Politics of Parking Can Defile a City, Toronto Star

The Cost of Free Parking, The Australian

Help for San Francisco parking nightmare? National Public Radio

San Francisco adopts performance prices for curb parking

Washington, DC adopts performance prices for curb parking

Parking 'Rock Star' Advocates Radical Change in Parking Pricing

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

Donald Shoup plays with parking fees and matchbox cars

Solar-Powered Parking Lots, San Francisco Chronicle

Gone Parkin', New York Times

The New Science of Parking, Time Magazine

We Paved Paradise, Salon

StreetFilms Inverview on The High Cost of Free Parking

Redwood City's Free-Market Parking Meters

Where should parking meter money go? KCET-TV

Wheels blog, New York Times

No Parking Anytime, Slate

Selected Publications

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

Chapter 1 of The High Cost of Free Parking

Book reviews of The High Cost of Free Parking

Donald Shoup, Parking Cash Out, Chicago: American Planning Association, 2005.

Donald Shoup, "Putting Cities Back on Their Feet," forthcoming in the Journal of Urban Planning and Development .

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

Vinit Mukhija and Donald Shoup, “Quantity versus Quality in Off-Street Parking Requirements,” Journal of the American Planning Association, Vol. 72, No. 3, Summer 2006, pp. 296–308.

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," Transportation, Vol. 28, No. 3, August 2001, pp. 233-267.

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.