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The Shoup Doctrine: Essays Celebrating Donald Shoup and Parking Reforms

In The Shoup Doctrine: Essays Celebrating Donald Shoup and Parking Reforms, edited by Daniel Baldwin Hess, 37 city planners, economists, journalists, and parking professionals analyze three major parking reforms proposed by Donald Shoup, a Distinguished Research Professor of Urban Planning at UCLA.

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Ungated Environments: Best Practices for Parking Payment Providers

As digital payments surge in ungated parking environments, ensuring clarity, consistency, and compliance has become more vital than ever. This white paper outlines key best practices for parking operators and payment providers to prevent consumer confusion and mitigate legal risk.

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Smart Transportation for Parking and Mobility Practitioners

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EV Readiness Resource Guide

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Suicide in Parking Facilities: Deterrence, Response, and Recovery

Suicide deterrence is important both from a moral standpoint and also to minimize trauma to parking professionals and other witnesses or bystanders. If a suicide or attempted suicide does occur in one of our garages, how do we handle the situation? IPMI has gathered information from a number of experts as well as members of the parking industry itself, with the goal of providing assistance, direction, and resources.