Donald Shoup and San Francisco

Donald Shoup's tireless advocacy has inspired more real-world reforms in San Francisco than any other place. San Francisco is an example of how the success of just one of Shoup's parking reform ideas begets more successful reforms. San Francisco was the first city to test Shoup's ideas about data-driven, policy-based on-street parking pricing through the award-winning SFpark pilot project. The success of the SFpark project then led San Francisco to become the first city to implement block-by-block, time-of-day demand-responsive pricing at all on-street paid parking in the city. The success of citywide, data-driven, policy-based on-street parking pricing then led San Francisco to create a Curb Management team and adopt a citywide Curb Management Strategy, one of the nation's first efforts to use data and policy, rather than complaints and requests, to guide the establishment of curb regulations. The Curb Management Strategy, in turn, has led San Francisco to undertake the Digital Curb project, a citywide, publicly available inventory of curb regulations that is the necessary foundation for demand-responsive management of all curb space in the city, including managing new technology-enabled transportation services like transportation network companies, delivery services, and autonomous vehicles.