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[quote user="John WR"] [quote user="Sam1"]I think load factor is at best a rough estimate for availability of space on a train. [/quote] Sam,   If you want to talk about averages you are talking to the wrong guy.  I don't like averages because I think they distort important things that happen at the ends of the continuum.  I like frequency distributions.  But if we used frequency distributions with something like Amtrak we would almost immediately be deluged with a mass of data that is too great to handle.   Now if you think that I have a bug in the lower portion of my anatomy about averages, you are right.  Everybody uses them.   I don't suggest you should not use them.   I just don't like them.   John [/quote] It appears that you have quoted yourself and attributed it to me. A frequency distribution could tell you the distirubiton of the load factor by quartiles or quintiles for a population. But one would still need to know the load factor for each segment to determine if the capacity utilization is for the route, one segment, or multiple segments. Amtrak only gives us averages by route. Having said that, it is difficult to imagine that an average load factor of 48 per cent translates into 100 per cent very often for the route or any one segment.
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