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Rail On-Time Performance

Thursday, September 6, 2012

Rail On-Time Performance

Amtrak On-Time Performance (monthly data, not seasonally adjusted)

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Amtrak trips of up to 250 miles are considered on time if they arrive less than 10 minutes beyond the scheduled arrival time; 251-350 miles, 15 minutes; 351-450 miles, 20 minutes; 451-550 miles, 25 minutes; and greater than 550 miles, 30 minutes.

Passenger Rail On-Time Performance Sep-06 Sep-07
On-time performance (percentage on-time) 72.7 73.2
Percent change from same month previous year 0.28 0.69

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.