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.
Sympathy goes out Shoup's family members. I was the recipient of his thoughts and ideas many years ago. His thinking and questioning shaped my advocacy for our slow snail paced change in America to think rationally about the Whole Transportation system, not just Interstate, but inclusive world. His questions of why do we have Christmas level needs of two weeks a year parking surrounding suburban malls remains a salient question all across America? How do we stimulate economic development in neighbors surrounding large stage/music venues? His old questions like these are still barely answered by our public stewards of DOTs and city scape planners. RIP.