Donald Shoup
Professor of Urban Planning at UCLA
Solving Parking Woes, One App at a Time
While that information can help drivers make better-informed decisions about where to find parking and how much it will cost, it can also ultimately affect parking supply, which is the number one reason you can’t find a space, says UCLA professor of urban planning Donald Shoup, who ... Read more »
Parking Tickets In LA: Villaraigosa Proposes Raising Fines, Again, To Counter City Deficit
However, Donald Shoup, professor of urban planning at UCLA, told The Huffington Post that the mayor's plan unfairly punishes the wrong people. The city should implement progressive parking fines rather than increase the cost for everyone, Shoup said. With progressive parking ... Read more »
Toronto News: Hume: Mayor Rob Ford has a better idea
In his seminal volume, The High Cost of Free Parking, UCLA planning professor Donald Shoup argues that parking should be taken off the list of civic rights and “integrated into the market economy.” “Availability is key,” he says. “The goal is to make parking well used but also readily ... Read more »
Opinion: With the Village Entrance Plan, More Parking = More Traffic
In an interview with parking guru Donald Shoup, a 75-year-old professor of urban planning at UCLA and author of the landmark book The High Cost of Free Parking? -- click here to listen to the free podcast -- Professor Shoup states clearly that more parking in a downtown area will ... Read more »
Why Parking in Cities Should Be Way More Expensive
Craziest of all, according to critics of free or cheap parking, is that residents with permits park in tens of thousands of spaces without paying a dime: “You have some of the most valuable land on earth, and you’re giving it away for free to cars,” says Donald Shoup, a professor of ... Read more »
Californians' commute times rank 10th longest in US
One explanation for persistently high rates of solo drivers, said Donald Shoup, a professor of urban planning at UCLA, is free parking. "If you can park free at work, it's an invitation to drive to work alone. And almost everybody who does drive to work has this invitation," he said. ... Read more »
How Much Should Parking Cost?
Dave Gardetta considers the work of Donald Shoup, a Yale-trained economist who envisions a fascinating new market: This spring the [L.A. Department of Transportation] plans to introduce an $18.5 million smart wireless meter system based on Shoup’s theories. Called ExpressPark, the ... Read more »
New ways to look at city parking
Pasadena, Calif., has established "Parking Benefit Districts," an idea of UCLA Professor Donald Shoup to use market economics to make curb parking more efficient. He recommends curb parking be priced high enough to create a 15% vacancy rate - reducing sharking - and using the parking ... Read more »
Are cheap parking rates a plague to a city?
“People pay with their time, instead of their money.” A UCLA transportation expert, Donald Shoup, said rates should be high enough to create an 85 percent occupancy rate. This would leave enough turnover to create an empty spot every block. But this cost Glaeser is encouraging is no ... Read more »
Sleep helps solve tough problems
Donald Shoup, a UCLA professor hailed as the ‘prophet of parking,’ estimates that one-third of traffic on congested downtown streets involves drivers seeking spots. San Francisco is taking aim with a pilot program that prices parking based on demand. Sensors in 7,000 of the city’s ... Read more »
Sacramento grapples with more drivers parking free with disabled placards
"It would lead to a lot more money for every city if you can flush out the abusers and restrict it to the people who really need it," said Donald Shoup, a professor of urban planning at UCLA. Disabled advocates say making everyone pay would be overkill and could penalize people with ... Read more »
File-Sharing Habits Unhindered by Criminal Crackdown
"I truly believe that when men and women think about parking, their mental capacity reverts to the reptilian cortex of the brain," says UCLA's Donald Shoup, perhaps the nation's only academic devoted to the study of parking. A law that is rarely enforced-indeed, which is not ... Read more »
Parking meter headaches? There's an app for that
“There’s lots of competition for the best way to charge people for parking,” says Donald Shoup, who teaches urban planning at UCLA. Shoup says high-tech parking payment systems are widespread in Europe, but Americans are just catching on. “The manufacturers tell me it’s a ... Read more »
Freakonomics » Parking Is Hell: A New Freakonomics Radio Podcast
... The Diplomats of Solid Sound; “Don’t Touch My Popcorn” (from Let’s Cool One )] Donald SHOUP: I think, you know, 50 years from now, when people look back on New York, and of course other cities, that they’ll say, ‘What did these people think they were doing?’ Stephen J. DUBNER: That’s Donald Shoup... Read more »
NW Portland battles parking fee plan
Meanwhile, national parking guru Donald Shoup says he has a better idea, not only for Northwest Portland, but also for the entire city. The Northwest Portland parking plan is ready to go. Portland's Bureau of Transportation proposed budget for 2012-13 includes $1.5 million in revenue ... Read more »
Once unimaginable analytics that are now practical
What intrigued me most about this is that the idea for the solution was proposed by theories of Donald Shoup, an urban planning professor at UCLA. His 2005 book, “The High Cost of Free Parking,” has made him a cult figure to city planners. A Facebook group, The Shoupistas, has more than ... Read more »
Cut disabled parking abuse to ease parking crunch / UCLA Today
Donald Shoup is professor of urban planning at UCLA's Luskin School of Public Affairs. This op-ed originally appeared in the Los Angeles Times on Oct. 22, 2012. Cities should set the right prices for curb parking because the wrong prices do so much harm. A yearlong study in 1984 ... Read more »
Shoup To APA: Let Planners Lead on Parking Requirements
Donald Shoup explains his disappointment with the American Planning Association's opposition to California legislation (AB 904), that would cap minimum parking requirements. "I have spent the last 35 years working ineffectively to reform American parking policies, especially minimum ... Read more »
Feeding the Hungry Parking Meter – Next American City
A Boston Globe article published the following January lamented this reality, cautiously introducing the case for demand-responsive pricing as espoused by SFPark advisor and UCLA professor Donald Shoup in his influential 2005 book, The High Cost of Free Parking. A quote from Robert ... Read more »
SM Parking Meters “Mean” : Santa Monica Dispatch
UCLA expert Donald Shoup calls them on that example of bureaucratic untruthiness, saying that unlike the new variable-rate meters going into Downtown Los Angeles, the Santa Monica meters really won’t do anything to free up parking spaces. It’s all about the money, he says — and he’s an ... Read more »
