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As part of ongoing Federal Railroad Administration-funded research examining the behavior of fine-filled ballast when exposed to moisture, Transportation Technology Center, Inc., used the Rainy Section at the Facility for Accelerated Service Testing to study the effectiveness of spot tamping in...
The Appendices presented below are a continuation of an annual data update which began with the publication of the 2016 Update on the Methodology for Amtrak Cost Accounting Amtrak Performance Tracking (APT).1 The 2016 report described Amtrak’s implemented APT cost allocation methodology and the...
This document updates previous FRA publications on the cost accounting methodology used by Amtrak to calculate and report route costs, Amtrak Performance Tracking (APT). The prior version of this report published in 2016, Update on the Methodology for Amtrak Cost Accounting Amtrak Performance...