UCLA ITS’ Donald Shoup to Deliver Keynote at Smart Parking Symposium

ITS researcher and UCLA Professor of Urban Planning Donald Shoup is slated to deliver the keynote address at the upcoming Smart Parking Symposium at the David Brower Center in Berkeley on March 18-19, 2013.

The symposium is convened by the Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITS America), in partnership with ITS California, Caltrans, and the Green Parking Council.

Professor Shoup has extensively studied parking as a key link between transportation and land use. His influential book, The High Cost of Free Parking, is leading cities to charge fair market prices for on-street parking, dedicate the resulting revenue to finance public services in the metered districts, and remove off-street parking requirements. His research on employer-paid parking led to passage of California’s parking cash-out law, and to changes in the Internal Revenue Code to encourage parking cash out.

Professor Shoup is a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners. He has been a visiting scholar at Cambridge University and the World Bank, and is an Honorary Professor at the Beijing Transportation Research Center. He has previously served as Director of the Institute of Transportation Studies and Chair of the Department of Urban Planning at UCLA. He is currently the Editor of ACCESS magazine.

For more information about the Smart Parking Symposium, click here.