Research & Innovations

COMING SOON: A Guide to Implementing Paid Parking provides a practical, step-by-step roadmap for planners, parking professionals, consultants, elected officials, and community leaders.

COMING SOON: Inclusive Streetscapes challenges practitioners and decision-makers to rethink how streets are planned, designed, built, operated, and maintained. Drawing on transportation practice and the perspectives of people with disabilities, this framework examines common streetscape elements through the lenses of accessibility, safety, usability, and human experience.

COMING SOON: A practical guide to understanding how parking operations really work—where revenue can be lost and how auditors, operators, owners, and public agencies can identify risks before they become bigger problems.

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.

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.

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.