About Parkonomics
Parking is the policy nobody reads and everybody feels.
Parkonomics is a practitioner-led publication on the economics of how cities move. We study parking as what it actually is: land, capital and an operating business that quietly shapes real estate, transit and the street.
Our mission
Moving from spaces to places.
Parking decisions are among the largest a city or a developer makes, and among the least examined. A single garage can outlast three mayors, two transit plans and the cars it was built for.
Parkonomics was started by three people who have run garages, built transit parking programs and designed the systems that collect the revenue. We publish long-form analysis that follows the money, reads the fine print and asks what a decision will look like in twenty years.
Parking is infrastructure.
A garage is land, capital and an operating business. We analyze it with the same rigor a city brings to a bridge or a rail line.
Practitioners write here.
Every author has run facilities, managed public programs or built the technology behind them. We write from the operating side of the gate.
Show the numbers.
Claims rest on primary data. When the evidence is thin we say so, and when it cuts against our thesis, we change the thesis.
Build, don’t blame.
We critique decisions, not people, and every piece ends with what an owner, operator or city can do next.
The team
Three careers, one question: what is parking really worth?
Andrew Sachs, PTMP
Co-founder and Editor
Andrew is President of Gateway Parking Services, a parking consultancy and systems integrator, and was for years owner-operator of Harbor Park Garage at Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. He is known for PARCS architecture: designing access and revenue control around how a facility actually operates, not around a vendor’s catalog. He serves on the NPA Parking Consultants Council and the IPMI Technology Committee, edits the 6th Edition of NPA’s Dimensions of Parking, and is a Venture Partner at NextGen Venture Partners. Before parking, he spent two decades producing large-scale live events and theater.
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Kevin Bopp
Co-founder
Kevin has spent more than 15 years building parking and mobility programs that treat the garage as infrastructure. He is Principal and Lead Advisor at Gateway Parking Services, led Park Rite in Detroit as CEO, and ran parking and mobility for Bedrock Detroit, where his MyCommute program became a World Economic Forum case study. He helped create the Detroit Smart Parking Lab, NPA’s 2023 Innovative Facility of the Year, and serves on ULI’s Urban Revitalization Product Council.
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Frank Ching, CPP
Co-founder
Frank is Director of Transportation and Parking Services at UC Santa Barbara. At LA Metro he built the Countywide Parking Management division and led mobility and park-and-ride planning for the FIFA World Cup 2026 and LA28. Before that he ran parking for the City of Santa Monica. He serves on the NPA Board of Directors and its Executive Committee and has been named NPA Innovator of the Year.
Read Frank’s work →What we publish
Six ways into the work.
Where our work appears
In print, on stage and in the standards.
Parkonomics analysis runs in Urban Land magazine and Parking Today, informs the National Parking Association’s Dimensions of Parking, and is presented at industry conferences across the country.
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