Amtrak Cascades
The Amtrak Cascades intercity passenger rail system is a service funded by Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) and the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT). As a sponsor and good steward of state funds, WSDOT is committed to monitoring and reporting Amtrak Cascades' performance.
The Amtrak Cascades service operates more than 4,000 trains annually with daily stops in 18 Pacific Northwest cities. The service includes:
- Six daily round trips between Seattle and Portland
- Two daily round trips between Seattle and Vancouver, British Columbia
- Two daily round trips between Portland and Eugene, Oregon (ODOT-supported segments)
This dashboard provides Amtrak Cascades performance measures including ridership, capacity utilization, annual passenger miles traveled and on-time performance on the WSDOT-supported segments of the Amtrak Cascades, which includes stops from Portland, Oregon to Vancouver, B.C.
Amtrak Cascades performance measures (WSDOT-supported segments)
Source: WSDOT Rail, Freight and Ports Division.
Notes: The names of several performance measures in this chart have been shortened for readability. "On-time" is short for "on-time performance," "Utilization" is short for "Train Capacity Utilization" and "PMT" is short for "passenger miles traveled." For details on the methodology used to calculate ridership, train capacity utilization, passenger miles traveled and on-time performance refer to Amtrak Cascades system performance methodology (PDF 5.9MB).
Multi-year trends
Ridership and utilization performance:
- Statewide ridership decreased 10.2% from 753,000 in 2019 to 676,000 in 2023
- The maximum utilization rate for peak sub-segments increased from 64.4% in 2019 to 71.2% in 2023. Utilization rates on all routes had increases
Passenger miles traveled & on-time performance:
- Passenger miles traveled decreased by 12.9% from 119.8 million passenger miles in 2019 to 104.5 million passenger miles in 2023
- On-time performance decreased from 58.0% in 2019 to 55.0% in 2023