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 was an extraordinary man. He was brilliant, genuinely humble, a great writer, his work incredibly impactful for the good, and he had a wonderful sense of humor; it's almost impossible to think of him without smiling. But what I will remember him for, what always struck me about him the most, is what a kind person he was. Writing about him in the past is hard. He will be sorely missed but his great work and the example he set will be with us always.