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Amtrak Ridership

Thursday, September 6, 2012

Amtrak Ridership

Number of Passengers (monthly data, not seasonally adjusted)

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Amtrak officially began service in May 1971. Amtrak serves more than 500 stations in 46 states and operates over a network of more than 22,000 track miles. Ridership is highly seasonal, with July and August being very high season months. In 2000, Amtrak introduced a high-speed rail service in the northeast U.S., which helped increase ridership.

Amtrak Ridership May-06 May-07
Amtrak Ridership 2,115,474 2,295,604
Percent change from same month previous year -2.53 8.51

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

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Railroad Administration, Office of Safety Analysis, available at http://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/OfficeofSafety/, as of August 2007.