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Amtrak's Incentive Contracts
With Railroads--
Considerable Cost, Few Benefits
National Railroad Passenger Corporation
Since July 1974 Amtrak, under its perform-
ance incentive contracts with 10 railroads, has
spent $32.6 million to improve ontime per-
formance and $1.5 million to improve main-
tenance quality. Ontime performance has
improved mainly because of a more liberal
definition of ontime and because of loos-
ened schedules, not because of the incentives.
Incentives have had virtually no effect on
improving the quality of equipment mainten-
ance. Maintenance problems have hampered
Amtrak since 1971.
Amtrak recently signed new incentive con-
tracts with three railroads and has reached
tentative agreements with five others. Al-
though Amtrak has reduced the running time
of many trains and increased the percentage
of trains which must be ontime before incen-
tive payments are made, some problems still
exist. For example, some railroads will not be
penalized for poor ontime performance and
the preventative maintenance provision does
not give the railroads an incentive to improv
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