Frank Ching has spent three decades running parking and mobility systems at every scale, from NFL game days at Candlestick Park to the largest transit parking network in Los Angeles County. He is Director of Transportation and Parking Services at UC Santa Barbara, where he leads a five-division department serving roughly 30,000 students, faculty and staff and is preparing the campus Long-Range Transportation and Parking Plan.
Before UCSB, Frank spent nearly a decade at LA Metro. He built the Countywide Parking Management division from the ground up, bringing 91 park-and-ride facilities and more than 30,000 spaces under one program, then served as Deputy Executive Officer for TDM, Parking and Mobility, where he managed a budget of more than $20 million and led mobility and park-and-ride planning for the FIFA World Cup 2026 and the LA28 Games. Earlier he was City Parking Administrator for Santa Monica, responsible for a revenue portfolio of more than $50 million, over 20,000 parking assets and a staff of more than 200.
Frank is a Certified Parking Professional, serves on the National Parking Association Board of Directors and its Executive Committee, and has been named NPA Innovator of the Year. He holds an MBA from Keller Graduate School of Management and a BA in Economics from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. At Parkonomics he writes on public parking policy, transit parking and the operating realities behind mega-events.
