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If Mr. A rides from Trenton to New York on Amtrak in the morning and returns in the evening, he is one customer making two passenger trips.  In FY11 the average annual subsidy per Amtrak passenger was $41.37.  This calculation is based on 30.2 million passenger trips, which Amtrak counts as passengers.  If the typical Amtrak customer made an average of 1.5 trips per year, which is probably a low ratio, it would mean that Amtrak carried 30.2 million passengers in FY11, but it had 20 million customers. This would make the average subsidy per customer $62.44 as opposed to $41.37 per passenger. A similar dynamic would impact all commercial carriers, i.e. air, bus, etc., but it would not change the federal  subsidy per motorist because they are the customer and passenger irrespective of how many trips they make in a year.  However, considering that some motorists carry one or more passengers, the federal subsidy per highway passenger would be reduced if it is spread across all the passengers.
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