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[quote user="Dragoman"] [quote user="Sam1"] ... If the Cardinal carried two sleepers during FY13, the number of rooms would have been 17,742 and the averages shown above would be halved. If it had more than one sleeper for a portion of the year, without knowing the dates that the second sleeper ran, it would be impossible to calculate the occupancy rate. However, it would fall somewhere between the average rates, depending on the assumptions, for two cars and one car. ... [/quote] Without knowing how many people did not ride because of "sold-out" status, trying to predict potential occupancy rates would seem to be an futile exercise.  The best one could do is try runnibg an extra sleeper on dates that are sold out well in advance, and see what happens. I suspect Amtrak would be unlikely to take that approach. [/quote] You are correct.  I was not attempting to predict how many people did not ride. If a person called to book a room, and the rooms were sold out, Amtrak could tally this number of attempted phone reservations that were turned down because there were no rooms available on the requested travel date. Moreover, it could, I think, determine how many people attempted to book-on line or through a travel agency, and were turned down.  I am assuming Amtrak's on-line reservation system can do this, but I am not sure. However,  if a person goes on-line to check on a room, and he or she does not book a room because the price is too high, Amtrak would be hard pressed to know it.    I presented several scenarios of what might have been the occupancy rates, depending on assumptions regarding the number of people occupying a room. It would not be more than two people per most rooms, if Amtrak's occupancy guidelines were followed, or less than one person per room.
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