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.
Donald Shoup was one of the first professors I had in the MA/UP program at UCLA in 1995. It was a statistics class and he used topics around congestion pricing, gas taxes, free riders, toll roads, and yes, parking, to demonstrate the concepts we were learning. I’ve spent the morning reading my notes (yes, I still have them), feeling grateful that I had the chance to learn from him. This was way before his ideas gained popularity. I’ve loved watching the trajectory of his work over the years. He managed to get planners, yes, but also politicians, residents, and everyday people talking about The High Cost of Free Parking. What a legend. He really did change the world.