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<p>[quote user="V.Payne"]</p> <p>The Crescent PRIIA report says they are using Roomette spaces as dorm rooms.</p> <p>http://www.amtrak.com/ccurl/570/756/2011%20PRIIA%20210%20Report%2009-26-11_final.pdf</p> <p>Page 33 diagrams 17 Roomettes available to the public and 6 Bedrooms, but that is after the improvements, currently I think they sell 16 Roomettes.Total rooms 22, Max Occupancy 44, yielding 44.260 million seat miles available or 22.130 million room miles.</p> <p>Page 20 shows an average sleeper length of haul of 755 miles and 33,766 sleeper passengers = 25.493 million sleeper passenger miles in a year.</p> <p>I typically assume 1.4 passengers per party, so 18.209 million room miles required. 18.209/22.130 = 82% occupancy of rooms could be plausible. The data to know for sure is not public. As to the degree that the Roomette is really a single passenger accommodation they did change the name.</p> <p>See my paper on the US Intercity Market for a better breakdown of the ultimate marginal costs. I of course have a spreadsheet for that...[/quote]</p> <p>I overlooked the crew occupancy of the roomettes! In any case, we are not that far off in an estimate of high end occupancy numbers, i.e. 74.5% vs 82%. As you noted; as I noted, the occupancy rate today, which would be the basis for determining whether adding additional would be a good business decision, is a range that could be plausible. </p> <p>Without access to Amtrak's accounting, financial, and operational records, it is impossible to answer the key questions to know whether adding equipment (sleepers) is a good business decision. Determining that a losing business line (long distance trains) would lose less money but still lose money a good business decision does not make. </p> <p>The solution to Amtrak's long distance train issue is to drop the product line. That would be the decision of a competitive business. Unfortunately, Amtrak is not a competitive business. It is a ward of the state and operates the long distance trains for political rather than economic reasons.</p>
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