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Rail Capacity Utilization: Rail Passenger Load Factor

Amtrak Passenger Load Factor (monthly data, not seasonally adjusted)

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

Rail Passenger Load Factor	Sep-06	Sep-07
Passenger load factor (percent)	45.4	47.4
Percent change from same month previous year	-5.02	4.41

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 February 2008.