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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 |
2,154,199 |
2,413,851 |
Percent change from same month previous year |
3.73 |
12.05 |
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 February 2008.
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