108 STAT. 900 PUBLIC LAW 103-272—JULY 5, 1994 (C) reducing losses on food service; (D) improving its contracts with operating rail carriers; (E) reducing management costs; and (F) increasing employee productivity; (2) minimize Government subsidies by encouraging State, regional, and local governments and the private sector to share the cost of providing rail passenger transportation, including the cost of operating facilities; (3) carry out strategies to achieve immediately maximum productivity and efficiency consistent with safe and efficient transportation; (4) operate Amtrak trains, to the maximum extent feasible, to all station stops within 15 minutes of the time established in public timetables; (5) develop transportation on rail corridors subsidized by States and private parties; (6) implement schedules based on a systemwide average speed of at least 60 miles an hour that can be achieved with a degree of reliability and passenger comfort; (7) encourage rail carriers to assist in improving intercity rail passenger transportation; (8) improve generally the performance of Amtrak through comprehensive and systematic operational programs and employee incentives; (9) carry out policies that ensure equitable access to the Northeast Corridor by intercity and commuter rail passenger transportation; (10) coordinate the uses of the Northeast Corridor, particularly intercity and commuter rail passenger transportation; and (11) maximize the use of its resources, including the most cost-effective use of employees, facilities, and real property. (d) MINIMIZING GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES. —To carry out subsection (c)(ll) of this section, Amtrak is encouraged to make agreements with the private sector and undertake initiatives that are consistent with good business judgment and designed to maximize its revenues and minimize Government subsidies. §24102. DeHnitions In this part— (1) "auto-ferry transportation" means intercity rail passenger transportation— (A) of automobiles or recreational vehicles and their occupants; and (B) when space is available, of used unoccupied vehicles. (2) "avoidable loss" means the avoidable costs of providing rail passenger transportation, less revenue attributable to the transportation, as determined by the Interstate Commerce Commission under section 553 of title 5. (3) "basic system" means the system of intercity rail passenger transportation designated by the Secretary of Transportation under section 4 of the Amtrak Improvement Act of 1978 and approved by Congress, and transportation required to be provided under section 24705(a) of this title and section 4(g) of the Act, including changes in the system or transportation that Amtrak makes using the route and service criteria.
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