Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Donald Shoup

How to Repair a Parking Crater in Three Steps

By Donald Shoup | Apr 8, 2015

[Before we started up the bracket for this year’s Parking Madness tournament, I got in touch with Donald Shoup, who literally wrote the book on parking reform, and asked him to pick the worst parking crater in the field of 16. Here’s his response, packaged with some advice for cities that have a parking crater problem. — Angie Schmitt] All the entries […]

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Donald Shoup, an Appreciation

By Patrick Siegman | Mar 30, 2015

On Tuesday, the news came that after 41 years of teaching at UCLA, Donald Shoup, distinguished professor of urban planning, will retire. For all of us who have had our paths in life profoundly influenced by his research, writing, and teaching on parking and transportation, it’s a good time to reflect. I never got to […]

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Donald Shoup Breaks Down Two Years of Data From Groundbreaking SFpark

By Aaron Bialick | Aug 8, 2013

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 […]

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Interview With Donald Shoup: Los Angeles Making Strides With ExpressPark

By Damien Newton | Aug 24, 2011

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 […]

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Moving Beyond the Automobile: The Right Price for Parking

By Elizabeth Press | Apr 19, 2011

You might be shocked at how much traffic consists of drivers who have already arrived at their destination but find themselves cruising the streets, searching for an open parking spot. In some city neighborhoods, cruising makes up as much as 40 percent of all traffic. All this unnecessary traffic slows down buses, endangers cyclists and […]

Shoup: Tax Code Makes Employer-Paid Parking Tough to Resist

By Streetsblog | Oct 19, 2010 | 3 Comments

In the fourth chapter of what’s become an enthralling series, UCLA professor Donald Shoup breaks down the incentives at work in the Cato Institute’s decision to provide free parking for employees at its Washington, D.C. headquarters. While Cato senior fellow Randal O’Toole claims the choice has nothing to do with market distortions caused by government […]

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