Off-street parking requirements are devastating American cities. So says the author in this no-
holds-barred treatise on the way parking should be. Free parking, the author argues, has …

Urban planners typically set the minimum parking requirements for every land use to satisfy
the peak demand for free parking. As a result, parking is free for 99% of automobile trips in …

Donald Shoup brilliantly overcame the challenge of writing about parking without being
boring in his iconoclastic 800-page book The High Cost of Free Parking. Easy to read and …

This report identifies core sustainable parking principles and illustrates how smarter parking
management can benefit consumers and businesses in time and money savings, while also …

Problem, research strategy, and findings: Local governments' minimum street-width
standards may force developers to oversupply, and residents to pay excessively for, on …

Most local governments' off-street parking requirements promote quantity over quality,
focusing on ensuring an ample supply of parking. This has undesirable consequences for …

Problem, research strategy, and findings: Underpriced and overcrowded curb parking
creates problems for everyone except a few lucky drivers who find a cheap space; all the …

Employer-paid parking subsidizes about a third of all automobile travel in the United States,
and about two-thirds of all automobile travel during the morning peak hours. To reduce traffic …

Urban sprawl is considered by most environmental scientists and urban planners to be a
serious environmental problem. However, public perception about parking availability often …

This book is a blueprint for developing an integrated parking plan. It explains how to
determine parking supply and affect parking demand, as well as how to calculate parking …