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.
Don Shoup's High Cost of Free Parking is a magisterial work of applied microeconomics. He took a mundane, oft-ignored policy and showed its profound and devastating effects on urban life. And unlike most academics, he wrote with simplicity and clarity and offered unambiguous policy advice. His work will live on, and his intellectual advocacy should be a model for others.