Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) is commissioned by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to bring about new ideas and approaches to urban transport improvement in a few cities as part of the Indonesia-Malaysia Thailand Growth Triangle or IMT-GT. ITDP provides technical assistance under the contract to work in multiple cities starting from meetings with stakeholders to field data collection. The fieldwork in Phuket started in April 2019. ITDP alongside Guido Bruggeman and Willem Bouwer, also hired by ADB, as the team leader and parking specialist respectively. The team collected data and directly experienced the situation to have a better understanding of the problems and to come up with potential improvements. The team also attended several meetings separately with Phuket Provincial Government, Phuket Municipal Government, Patong Mayor as well as land transport and public transport association.

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