Brian Shaw

Brian Shaw, PTMP is a consultant for Kimley-Horn’s California team in Oakland. He supports the California region, bringing his knowledge and expertise in parking, mobility and transportation management to the Transportation team. After spending most of his career in higher education, he works with a firm with a strong reputation and a deep bench of services that allows him to help support you and your upcoming projects!
Brian has spent his over 30-year career fostering commuter travel choices and innovations in parking management. Brian has worked primarily in higher education at some of the leading research institutions across the United States most recently at Stanford.
Brian is a former President, Treasurer, and Board Member of ACT and currently serves on ACT's Accreditation Committee.
Brian served on the board of International Parking and Mobility Institute (IPMI) from 2014-20. He has developed a Transportation Demand Management course series for IPMI and the Green Building Council to help educate non-practitioners. Brian also contributed to IPMI’s A Guide to Parking, the first parking industry textbook, and IPMI’s “Introduction to Parking” web course. He also contributed an essay to recently published Dr. Donald Shoup tribute book, The Shoup Doctrine.
Brian served as the Secretary on the board of the California Mobility and Parking Association (CMPA) during 2024. He also served on the CMPA board from 2022-23, serving as conference chair in 2023 and mentor program lead during 2025.
Brian is the 2021 recipient of the James M. Hunnicutt Industry Professional of the Year award from IPMI. The department he led, Stanford Transportation, won the 2021 Parking Organization of the Year award from IPMI. He is also a frequent contributor to Parking & Mobility, IPMI’s monthly magazine as well as the IPMI Blog. Brian has presented at IPMI, CMPA, PIPTA, ACT, NACUBO and was featured on The Parking Podcast in October 2019.