Gateway Parking Services is the publisher of Parkonomics, a practitioner-led research and thought leadership platform covering the economics of parking, curb infrastructure, urban mobility, and real estate development.
Parkonomics was founded on a simple premise. Most public analysis of parking and mobility infrastructure comes from policy advocates with a position to defend or vendors with a product to sell. The field has lacked a steady source of research written by the people who actually operate, finance, and manage the assets being discussed.
Parkonomics fills that gap.
What Parkonomics Publishes
- Long-form research and white papers on topics including the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics infrastructure buildout, municipal procurement reform, and the deployment economics of EV charging
- Field Notes — short-form practitioner analysis on issues facing operators, owners, and public agencies
- A podcast series featuring practitioners, transit leaders, and infrastructure investors
- Peer-reviewed research submitted to academic transportation journals, with preprints indexed for the broader research community
The Editorial Team
Parkonomics was co-founded by Andrew Sachs, PTMP, principal of Gateway Parking Services; Kevin Bopp; and Frank Ching, CPP, formerly of LA Metro and a veteran of large transit capital programs. Together, the team brings decades of operating, capital planning, asset management, and procurement experience across municipal, institutional, and private sector portfolios.
Publishing Partners
Parkonomics research has been published or featured by:
- The Urban Land Institute (ULI)
- Parking Today
- The National Parking Association
Why Gateway Publishes Parkonomics
Gateway’s day-to-day work with municipalities, institutional owners, developers, and asset managers consistently surfaces the same pattern. Decisions about parking and curb infrastructure are being made with incomplete information about underlying cost curves, operating economics, and capital lifecycle. The result is procurement processes that miss their stated goals, technology investments that underperform, and capital projects that fail to deliver the legacy value their sponsors promised.
Parkonomics is Gateway’s contribution to closing that information gap. It is editorially independent, non-political, and grounded in operational and financial data rather than ideology.
For Gateway clients and partners, Parkonomics offers context on the trends shaping the industry. For the broader field — public agencies, institutional owners, investors, and operators — it provides a reference point that prioritizes evidence over advocacy.
Read Parkonomics
Visit parkonomics.co to read the latest research, subscribe for new releases, and access the archive of articles, white papers, and podcast episodes.
