Overall revenue is up, costs are being contained, expansion plans remain on track, and Amtrak is taking detailed steps to ...

Amtrak’s overall customer on-time performance improved in the first quarter of 2025, compared to the previous quarter, ...

After nearly 10 years of a contentious battle involving Amtrak and its host freight railroads that twice reached the U.S. Supreme Court, the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) has published a final ...

The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) is proposing service metrics that would measure the on-time performance of Amtrak's intercity passenger rail operations. The application of these metrics ...

The proposed rule “would define Amtrak intercity passenger train on-time performance, and would set forth—on average—a minimum on-time performance standard of 80%,” FRA said. The proposed performance ...

“If Amtrak wasn’t running well ... closely follows the performance metrics that the freight railroads are required to report to the STB each week. He says shippers’ concerns are justified ...

Implementing the new law, the FRA and Amtrak jointly drafted metrics and standards and put them out for public comment. Metrics developed to measure on-time performance in particular drew ...

and Amtrak the joint power to promulgate metrics and standards to define "on-time performance," and gave the STB the power to penalize a freight railroad if Amtrak trains operating over its tracks ...

Amtrak also said that bonuses are based on performance metrics like ridership and revenue. While the bonuses are performance-based, there is dissatisfaction with the corporate structure that ...

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a case again about whether Amtrak can have a role in crafting the on-time performance metrics and standards for the freight railroads. The Court's June 3 ...

The decision nullified the metrics and, as Jaffe notes, it “likewise triggered the start of Amtrak's on-time performance decline.” D.J. Stadtler, Amtrak’s VP Operations, made a similar ...