Parking requirements are the dark matter of the urban universe: they affect transport and land use in mysterious ways. These fun facts illustrate the costs and impacts of economically excessive

Personal website of UCLA Professor Emeritus Donald Shoup

Cities significantly underprice their roads and parking facilities, forcing local taxpayers to subsidize out-of-town motorists. Municipal officials have an obligation to better manage these valuable

In light of the Downtown Memphis' Commission's review of downtown parking and ways to make it more effective and efficient, we are posting a commentary by retired UCLA economist Don Shoup, whose 2005 book, The High Cost of Free Parking, is considered the definitive authority on the subject. His recent book, Parking and the City, follows up: At the dawn of the automobile age, suppose Henry Ford and John D. Rockefeller had asked how city planners could increase the demand for cars and gasoline. Consider three options. First, divide the city into separate zones (housing here, jobs there, shopp...

Parking minimums are under siege and it's a very good thing. Most buildings in most cities and towns across the globe are required by la...

Many jurisdictions have vehicle travel reduction targets. Integrating Smart Growth policies can help achieve these reductions as well as other planning goals.

Cities that require builders to provide off-street parking trigger more traffic, sprawl, and housing unaffordability. But we can break the vicious cycle.

The White House deals a (symbolic) blow to neighborhoods hoping to keep precious spots all to themselves.

Driverless cars will change more things than you know.

It seems like a boon. But it's a menace.

Australian cities have a glut of parking, even as politicians move to protect parking spaces or promise even more. There are better ways to keep congestion manageable and our cities liveable.