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 played a key role in many of the parking experiments I conducted while managing the transportation planning program at UC Berkeley, providing the foundation for my early research on campus parking pricing, transportation demand management (TDM), and strategies to influence travel behavior. He had a rare gift for making complex policies accessible—in a conversation with me he once described campus parking as an “all-you-can-eat buffet” where there was no reason to stop until you were stuffed; a simple but brilliant analogy that has stuck with me. His approachability, generosity, and support for those working to build better cities left an indelible mark on our field and on me personally.Rest in peace, Don—thank you for everything.