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Amtrak Update
ColoRail Annual Meeting
Rob Eaton
Director, State Supported Service and Government Affairs
27 April 2019
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305 trains, 500 Cities, 46 States, 21000 miles
System Ridership 2018 – 31.7 million, up 30% since
2008
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Amtrak Annual Ridership
FY2018 Federal Loss Lowest in Corporation’s History4
Improved Relations on Capitol Hill5
• Continued reductions in Operating
Loss improves Amtrak’s credibility with
Congress
• On track to require $0 in
Operating Support in 2-3 years
• Will still need significant Capital
funding to support projects like
Gateway, NEC21, fleet
acquisitions
• Maintain robust grant framework for
States to support network growth
• Most of the action will be
happening in the states.
• NC, CA, CT, VA, ME, MI, NYS, WA,
and OR are moving ahead with
projects for more and faster
trains.
FY 2020 Grant Request • Requests a total appropriation of $1.8 billion for Amtrak. This is the total
amount authorized for FY 20 for Amtrak and is the maximum amount Amtrak
is allowed to request as directed by the FAST Act.
• However, since we are currently funded at a higher level ($1.941 billion) we
also explain how additional funds could support the NEC and National
Network.
• Similar to last year, we request that federal funds be provided for five years
(FY 20 and four subsequent fiscal years) to improve planning and stability,
similar to virtually all other federal transportation programs.
• Includes a detailed explanation of how we plan to spend the grant dollars,
within context of Amtrak’s overall spend plan, for: Transportation,
Infrastructure, Equipment, Stations, and National Assets and Corporate
Services, for both the NEC and National Network.
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Request by Account, Service Line and Asset Line7
Northeast Corridor National Network
$600 million $1.2 billion
Service Line
NEC $413 m
State Supported $382 m
Long Distance $702 m
Infrastructure Access $254 m
Ancillary Services $27 m
Asset Line
Transportation $252 m
Infrastructure $321 m
Equipment $907 m
Stations $299 m
National Assets & Corp Services $0
The above Service Line and Asset Line figures do not add to $1.8 billion due to rounding and also because they do not include takedowns.
Amtrak’s request is $1.8 b. Here are three different views of this request:
State Supported Business Line8
Emerging Regions9
State Services – Fastest Growing Market Segment10
• Amtrak has agreements with state DOT’s or authorities in 18 states
• In FY ‘18, the state-supported routes generated $521.2 million in ticket revenue, 3.1% above FY17 – highest growth of the 3 service lines, again
• State-supported routes carried 15 million passengers, 47.5% of all Amtrak customers; up 0.2 pt. from FY‘17
• In FY ‘19, estimated contractual state payments total almost $270 million for services on 29 routes.
Current State Partners
California Connecticut
Illinois Indiana
Maine Massachusetts
Michigan Missouri
New York North Carolina
Pennsylvania Oklahoma
Oregon Texas
Vermont Virginia
Washington Wisconsin
Potential and New Services
• New Chicago – Quad Cities (Moline), Illinois in negotiations with Iowa Interstate for
access
• Additional 3 trains Chicago – Milwaukee Hiawatha Service
• Chicago – Milwaukee- Twin Cities double the frequency with new train
• New Twin Cities – Duluth, Minn. Northern Lights Express, 4 trains each way daily
• Service extension, Kansas City - Wichita - Oklahoma City - DFW
• New Colorado Front Range: Cheyenne, WY – Denver – Colorado Springs- Pueblo
• Roanoke – Charlottesville – Washington – New York service extension added for Virginia
DRPT
• Seattle – Portland 2 new trains to be added this Spring for Washington State DOT
• Gulf Coast Service, New Orleans – Mobile – Tallahassee – Jacksonville - Orlando
• Chicago – Rockford – Freeport – Galena – Dubuque
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Federal Grant Opportunities
* Federal-State Partnership for State of Good Repair
*CRISI
* Restoration and Enhancement Grants
* TIGER/BUILD
FEDERAL STATE PARTERSHIP FOR STATE OF
GOOD REPAIR
▪ Authorized in FAST
▪ Originally intended for the NEC/Gateway
▪ $25 million in FY’17, $250 million in FY18
▪ 2019 Appropriations Act has $400 million
▪ Requires a “Cost Allocation policy and Capital Allocation plan”, i.e. PRIIA #212.
Language amended so that a state would be eligible even if not all NEC states are in
compliance with usage agreements, and to allow for non-NEC states to apply. In theory
PRIIA#209 should apply.
▪ Language (from House version) does NOT direct FRA to give preference to projects with
completed environmental and design work or fro critical at-risk projects.
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Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety
Improvements (CRISI)
• Authorized in FAST
• $62.5 million in FY’17
• $592.5 million in FY’18, $255 million for FY19.
• “Catch-all” program that can fund projects in 11 eligible categories.
Tracks, signals, stations, rolling stock, etc.
• Requires a BCA and a local share.
• Amtrak is an eligible applicant, but must assure our match is a non-
federal match
• $250 million (in FY18) is for “railroad safety technology, (PTC)
• Expands PTC deployment eligibility to include commuter rail lines.
• $35 million set aside for a capital project that contribute to the
initiation or restoration of intercity passenger rail (R&E)
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Restoration and Enhancement Grants
• Authorized in FAST ACT
• Federal Program for “Operating funds”.
• $20 million in FY’17 and again in FY ‘18
• $5 million in FY’19
• Originally intended for the Gulf Coast service restoration
• Awaiting NOFA for the FY’18 funds.
• Former Amtrak routes are eligible for this program. Possible routes
include New Orleans – Mobile, Northern Flyer and Duluth service.
• Made even more attractive by the CRISI set-aside.
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BUILD or Better Utilizing Investments to
Leverage Development, formerly TIGER
• TIGER is an Obama era legacy program for Transportation projects
• Amtrak is not an eligible applicant, but Amtrak infrastructure projects
are eligible. Just need to be funded by a state/local government
entity.
• $500 million in FY’17
• $1.5 billion in FY’18
• $900 million in FY ‘19
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Amtrak Service in Colorado17
Ridership18
OCT-MAR YTD FY19 FY18 Plan % Change FY18 % Change Plan
California Zephyr 198,559 203,950 196,412 -2.6 1.1
Southwest Chief 149,956 151,471 147.047 -1.0 2.0
All Long Distance 2,128,062 2,157,496 2,100,464 -1.4 1.3
Amtrak Total 15,494,434 15,297,478 15,615,289 1.3 -0.8
Revenue19
OCT-FEB YTD FY19 FY18 Plan % Change FY18
% Change Plan
California Zephyr $21,264,803 $22,819,585 $22,367,100 -6.7 -4.8
Southwest Chief $18,386,451 $18,225,316 $17,998,800 0.9 2.2
All Long Distance $225,815,638 $226,854,976 $223,793,000 -0.5 0.9
Amtrak Total $1,122,247,635 $1,099,332,278 $1,126,588,200 2.1 -0.4
Overall CSI Score – March 2019Ridership FY19 Prev 12-Month FY 19 Goal FY19 vs
Prev 12-MonFY19 vs Goal
California Zephyr
33,241 81.5 86.7 86.0 -5.1 -4.5
Southwest Chief
27,769 84.1 84.2 84.6 -0.2 -0.5
All Long Distance
378,076 83.6 83.5 83.0 0.1 0.6
Amtrak System Wide
2,688,326 89.1 87.1 87.7 2.0 1.4
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Overall CSI Scores - % Very Satisfied
Amtrak Winter Park Express
2017 2018 2019
Round Trips 25 27 32
Revenue Cars 8 8 6
Ridership 17,856 14,867 19,437
Total Seats 27,500 27,500 24,960
Load Factor 65% 54% 77.2%
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AWPE - Marketing/Media Results Provided by Meltwater
Year Media ExposureTotal number of news and broadcast mentions of WPE
Potential ReachMeasure of potential audience from global online news of WPE
Advertising ValueEstimate of publicity value by industry standard formula
Season 1 -2017
1,608• 1,203 News• 405 Broadcast
1.422 B• 1 B News• 422 M Broadcast
$13.5 M• $9.4 M News• $4.1M Broadcast
Season 2 -2018
2,836• 1,100 News• 536 Broadcast• 1,200 Social
716.7 M• 676 M News• 40.7 M Broadcast
$6.68 M• $6.3 M News• $376 K Broadcast
Season 3 –2019(**Through 2/26/19)
1,129• 605 News• 312 Broadcast• 212 Social
363 M• 318 M News• 45 M Broadcast
$4.1 M• $2.9 M News• $1.2 M Broadcast
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Confidential. For Internal Use Only.
Thank you
Rob EatonState Supported Service and Government Affairs