The March 2016 Monthly Performance Report has been posted on the website. The ridership, revenue, and operating numbers for March and the first half of the fiscal year are available for review.
I don't have time for a detailed post at the moment, so I'll leave that to others. Quick summary is the system ridership for the month of March was up +1.9%, ticket revenue was down -1.3% compared to 2015 and both were well below budget. But, as noted in discussions of the previous monthly reports, the budget projections were really optimistic for the fiscal year.
Good month for the LD trains with ridership up +7.5%, revenue +2.2%. However the Palmetto allowing trips on the NEC and attributing those sales to the Palmetto is contributing to the big gain. Still, ridership is still up overall for the LD trains even discounting the Palmetto increase.
System end point On-time performance for March was 82%, up +12.4% over March 2015. All Stations OTP in March was 81.1% so it not just schedule padding for the last station stop. Solid improvement in OTP for the NEC, most state corridors and the LD trains. In general, the trains that had poorer OTP were in the southeast: Piedmont, Carolinian, the Silvers, Palmetto, the Autotrain, and the Crescent. I think track project work on the A-Line in VA & NC and on the Piedmont corridor is a factor for those trains. The Empire Builder had the best OTP in March and year-to-date of the LD trains, big change from previous years.
I don't have time for a detailed post at the moment, so I'll leave that to others. Quick summary is the system ridership for the month of March was up +1.9%, ticket revenue was down -1.3% compared to 2015 and both were well below budget. But, as noted in discussions of the previous monthly reports, the budget projections were really optimistic for the fiscal year.
Good month for the LD trains with ridership up +7.5%, revenue +2.2%. However the Palmetto allowing trips on the NEC and attributing those sales to the Palmetto is contributing to the big gain. Still, ridership is still up overall for the LD trains even discounting the Palmetto increase.
System end point On-time performance for March was 82%, up +12.4% over March 2015. All Stations OTP in March was 81.1% so it not just schedule padding for the last station stop. Solid improvement in OTP for the NEC, most state corridors and the LD trains. In general, the trains that had poorer OTP were in the southeast: Piedmont, Carolinian, the Silvers, Palmetto, the Autotrain, and the Crescent. I think track project work on the A-Line in VA & NC and on the Piedmont corridor is a factor for those trains. The Empire Builder had the best OTP in March and year-to-date of the LD trains, big change from previous years.