NOTES:Short distance includes all Amtrak Northeast Corridor and Empire Service (New York State) trains. Amtrak provides on-time performance data in percentages. Amtrak revised its methodology for collecting and calculating on-time performance data in 2001. This resulted in minor changes in short-distance, long-distance, and system on-time performance percentages starting in 2001 compared with previous years.
SOURCES:1995-1999-National Railroad Passenger Corp. (Amtrak), Amtrak Annual Report (Washington, DC: annual issues). 2000-2005-Amtrak, personal communication, November 2006.