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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

“Payment of lavish executive bonuses when Amtrak services and revenues ... including the metrics on which performance bonuses are based; how those compare with similar firms heavily financed ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thus, in working with the Federal Railroad Administration to issue the “metrics and standards” for performance, “Amtrak acted as a governmental entity for purposes of the Constitution’s ...

49 U.S.C. §24101 note (Supp. V 2011). Although primarily designed to evaluate Amtrak’s performance, the metrics have other important purposes. First, if Amtrak service falls below minimum standards in ...

As the ongoing investigation into Tuesday night's derailment continues, officials have uncovered the Amtrak train's black ... used to monitor traction unit performance, the behavior and capability ...