Flexible working hours, effective tool in reducing congestion?

Congestion and optimizing the use infrastructure are hot topics in the Netherlands. To tackle this congestion problem different policies can be implemented. Seeing as the current predominately used anti-congestion measures seem to be ineffective in ensuring a high level of mobility in the long run, implementing flexible working hour initiatives on a large scale and thus spreading the need for transportation over the day could help to tackle the current congestion problem. This idea sound simple and effective, but how do the actual commuters, the employees stuck in traffic, react to these policies and why? This thesis has been written with the aim of assessing the effectiveness of flexible working hour initiatives on the reduction of congestion from the employee’s point of view.