Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Donald Shoup

Rock Star or Comedian? Donald Shoup Takes His Parking Show to Berkeley

By Melanie Curry | Mar 20, 2014 | No Comments

“Parking is the single biggest land use in any city,” said UCLA Professor Donald Shoup to a packed house in Berkeley last night, “and it’s almost completely unmanaged.” At the same time, “zoning requires a space for every car but ignores the homeless. In our cities, free parking is more important than affordable housing.” Shoup […]

Shoup: SFpark Yields Promising Results, Lessons for Demand-Based Pricing

By Aaron Bialick | Aug 7, 2013 | 13 Comments

Donald Shoup may be known as a guru of smart parking policy, but even he has found a few surprises in the data collected so far from SFpark. “The biggest surprise I got was that prices went up and down, but overall, they stayed the same. The average price actually declined by 1 percent,” said […]

Palo Alto, Choked By Famously Free Parking, May Consider Pricing the Curb

By Bryan Goebel | Jul 30, 2012 | 25 Comments

For the first time in 15 years, Palo Alto’s outdated parking policies are being reviewed, and planners will consider recommending sustainable parking principles in the downtown core to better manage the supply. The affluent Silicon Valley city has not had a comprehensive examination of its parking strategies since 1997, when it installed four color-coded parking […]

Donald Shoup Responds to California APA’s Opposition to Parking Reform Bill

By Juan Matute | Jun 19, 2012 | No Comments

[Editor’s note: The full letter from Donald Shoup to the American Planning Association on AB 904 can be found after the jump.] In 2004, when the American Institute of Certified Planners inducted Donald Shoup as a fellow — the American Planning Association’s (APA) highest honor — it called the UCLA professor “an academic authority on parking and its effects on […]

Interview With Donald Shoup: Los Angeles Making Strides With ExpressPark

By Damien Newton | Aug 24, 2011 | No Comments

Last week Streetsblog LA talked with UCLA Professor and parking guru Donald Shoup about ExpressPark, the new parking pricing system coming to downtown Los Angeles. Damien Newton: Los Angeles is changing the way it does parking in its downtown. They’re calling it the ExpressPark system. Let’s start with the basics — what is the program […]

Shoup: NPR Puts a Price on Parking. Why Not Cato?

By Streetsblog | Oct 13, 2010 | No Comments

Streetsblog is pleased to present the third episode in UCLA planning professor Donald Shoup’s ongoing inquiry into whether the Cato Institute’s free market principles extend to the realm of parking policy. Read Shoup’s previous replies to Cato senior fellow Randal O’Toole here and here. Dear Randal, In your September 1 post on Cato@Liberty, you mentioned […]

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