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.
