People Behind the Plans: Donald Shoup, FAICP

By his estimation, Donald Shoup, FAICP, thinks about parking more
than anybody else. That seems plausible, as he's been a longtime
advocate for progressive parking policy. In fact, his ideas have
spread so widely that not only does he have fans, but they even
have a nickname for themselves: "Shoupistas." Don is a
Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Urban
Planning at UCLA, author of the seminal High Cost of Free Parking,
and editor of the recent Parking and the City. He chats with host
Courtney Kashima, AICP, about how he got into the transportation
subfield and how, throughout his career, he has tried to further
equitable policies and correct market and government failures when
it comes to parking. He describes his basic thesis from The High
Cost of Free Parking, which is that cities should (1) get rid of
all minimum parking requirements, (2) charge demand-based prices
for on-street parking, and (3) spend the revenue to pay for public
services in the metered neighborhood. He and Courtney discuss those
tenets as well as new parking-payment technologies, the growing
need to better manage curb space, and even a bit of Roman history,
all with Don's trademark passion and humor.