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.
What a remarkable life! I never met Donald Shoup in person, but he was very generous responding to my email questions about parking policy. Here in East Palo Alto, we have every type of parking issue and have too many damn cars on our streets. The fact that Dr Shoup would take the time to respond to me multiple times about our issues in East Palo Alto speaks volumes about his energy and enthusiasm for reforming parking. I'm now on City Council in East Palo Alto, and we will be implementing our first parking permit program next month. I jokingly said this week to our City Manager that we should be buying "The High Cost of Free Parking" for staff and council members to read before we implement our policy. While we may not have everyone read his tome, we will be sure to include his ideas in our new parking permit program. RIP