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Rail Capacity Utilization: Rail Passenger Load Factor

Amtrak Passenger Load Factor (monthly data)

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Amtrak Passenger Load Factor (monthly data). If you are a user with disability and cannot view this image, use the table version. If you need further assistance, call 800-853-1351 or email answers@bts.gov.

Load factor is related to the potential capacity of a system relative to its actual performance.

Rail Passenger Load Factor	Aug-05	Aug-06
Passenger load factor (percent)	53.1	54.3
Percent change from same month previous year	3.71	2.26

NOTES: The current value is compared to the value from the same period in the previous year to account for seasonality.

SOURCE: Amtrak, "Monthly Performance Reports", available at http://www.amtrak.com/, as of November 2006.