Rewarding peak avoidance: the Dutch 'Spitsmijden' projects

Abstract

The Dutch road network is becoming increasingly congested. In late 2006, a group of companies, universities and government institutions established the Spitsmijden project. ‘Spitsmijden’ is the Dutch term for ‘avoiding the peak’. This joint initiative aimed to identify and assess a short-term solution that could extend the portfolio of transport policy instruments that may be used to manage temporal peaks in transport demand