Donald Shoup   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 research on employer-paid parking led to the passage of California’s parking cash-out law, and to changes in the Internal Revenue Code to encourage parking cash out. His research on municipal parking policies has led cities to charge fair market prices for curb parking and to dedicate the meter revenue to finance added public services in the metered districts.

Shoup has also worked on new ways to finance neighborhood public investments. In research conducted at the World Bank, he proposed a new way to finance these investments: allow property owners to defer paying special assessments, with interest, until they sell their properties. This proposal led to passage of California's law that enables cities to use deferred special assessments to finance neighborhood public investments.

Professor Shoup is a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners. He has been a visiting scholar at Cambridge University, 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

Parking in Sudoku

Cities Rethink Parking Requirements, Associated Press

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

Pricey Parking Could Ease Traffic, Los Angeles 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 California's Cities Back on Their Feet," forthcoming in California Policy Options 2009.

Donald Shoup, "Graduated Density Zoning," forthcoming in the Journal of Planning Education and Research.

Donald Shoup, "The Politics and Economics of Parking on Campus," forthcoming in Transport Demand Management Measures: An International Perspective.

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.

Donald Shoup, “Parking on a Smart Campus,” in California Policy Options 2005, Daniel Mitchell (ed.), Los Angeles: UCLA School of Public Affairs, 2005, pp. 117-149.

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.