Remembering Donald Shoup (1938-2025)
Professor Donald Shoup passed away on February 6, 2025. Among many other significant achievements and honors he was a founding Advisory Board member of PRN.
Donald’s curiosity, intelligence, passion, generosity, and kindness allowed him not only to expose the critical problems with modern parking policy, but also to ignite and nurture a movement to change them and make the world a better place.
The Parking Reform Network wishes to provide our community with a place to share their stories and thoughts to remember and honor Donald.
Professor Shoup was a donor, member, and booster of PRN’s work. If you are so moved, you can honor his legacy and support the parking reform movement with a memorial donation.
I became a transportation planner because Professor Shoup inspired me to become one. Discovering his writing changed my life for the better. Don's friendship and mentorship did too. He inspired so many of us. We mourn his loss. We will miss him terribly. We’ll do our best to carry on his work.
I wrote the following piece about him in 2015, on the occasion of his retirement. It tries to explain why he has meant so much to so many of us. May he rest in peace.
https://usa.streetsblog.org/2015/03/30/donald-shoup-an-appreciation
I wrote the following piece about him in 2015, on the occasion of his retirement. It tries to explain why he has meant so much to so many of us. May he rest in peace.
https://usa.streetsblog.org/2015/03/30/donald-shoup-an-appreciation