In 2005, UCLA Professor of Urban Planning, Donald Shoup, published The High Cost of Free Parking, a 700-plus page book that illustrated policies that could help solve parking-related traffic problems. Since then he has lectured across the United States on these ideas, some of which have been adopted, or are being proposed, by a number of cities. A recent interview that appears on the Streetsblog Web site, Shoup explains how higher curbside parking fees can lower street traffic congestion as well as provide more available spaces for motorists. An animation created by StreetFilms illustrates Shoup’s arguments. Watch video