WASHINGTON — Neil Moyer has been appointed director of the Surface Transportation Board’s Office of Passenger Rail, STB Chairman Martin J. Oberman announced Monday.
The office, established in October 2022, is responsible for investigating and analyzing issues regarding Amtrak on-time performance. Moyer has coordinated the STB’s responsibilities in this area since mid-2021, assisted the board in establishing the new office, and overseen the office’s implementation of its investigative mandate. The board is currently conducting its first investigation of on-time performance, regarding a complaint brought by Amtrak in December 2022 regarding the Sunset Limited [see “Amtrak asks federal regulators to investigate …,” Trains News Wire, Dec. 9, 2022].
“The selection of Neil Moyer as Director of the Office of Passenger Rail is a critical step in ensuring the Board’s preparedness to meet its important oversight and adjudicatory responsibilities with regard to passenger rail OTP,” Oberman said in a press release. “Mr. Moyer is well-suited for this responsibility, considering his deep experience in the passenger rail arena. I am confident in the Board’s ability to meet its ongoing passenger rail OTP responsibilities and play its part in improving the service quality of the nation’s intercity passenger rail system.”
Moyer has been a member of the STB staff since 2014, previously serving at the Federal Railroad Administration as chief of the Intercity Passsenger Rail Analysis Division and chief of the Financial and Economic Analysis Division.
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