December 2015 Performance Report

[Paulus]

Until Amtrak is required to publish each train's & route's revenue passenger miles instead of just overall RPMs one cannot tell how each route is doing. For example the Downeasters appear to carry mostly passengers from Maine to Boston north so its RPMs per train mile might be higher than another train's RPMs. An extreme example is the Crescent's RPM ATL <> New Orleans which by all measures is rather low.

IMO the number of passengers on a train or service has no meaning.

You can actually figure it out from the monthly performance reports (contribution divided by contribution per passenger mile) and its reported quarterly in the FRAs Rail Service Metrics (which they've been publishing again after a lengthy delay for some reason).

 

[neroden]

The FRA isn't reporting avoidable cost metrics yet, by any chance, are they. They said they were going to back in 2008.

 

[Paulus]

The FRA isn't reporting avoidable cost metrics yet, by any chance, are they. They said they were going to back in 2008.

Not yet, which is highly frustrating. Believe me, as soon as it gets posted, I'll be shouting huzzahs from all the rooftops