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When will Amtrak Ridership stats be out?

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[quote user="schlimm"] Customers on the retail level are typiclly measured by the number times purchases are made at a store.  For transportation, the number of passengers carried is the metric for airlines.   If I flew Delta five times last year or five different people flew once, that's still five passengers.   Customers are not measured, AFAIK. [/quote] The number of customers carried by Amtrak or other commercial carriers is not reported as you indicated.  But Amtrak has the information, or it could compile it easily. Amtrak, Greyhound, Megabus, Boltbus, as well as each commercial air carrier, lifts electronic tickets from their passengers.  The information is contained in a computer database and, amongst other things, is used to identify their loyality customers.  It would be easy to determine the number of customers.  Write one or two lines of code to eliminate duplicate records and run the program.  It would spit out the number of customers in a flash. If Amtrak were required to report the number customers it carried, it would show that fewer Americans depend on Amtrak than is implied by reporting riders or passengers.  The same would apply for the other commercial carriers.  By contrast the number of licensed motorists is reported in National Transportation Statistics.
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