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5/11/2026
The Surface Transportation Board (STB) last week announced changes to reporting requirements for Class Is. The railroads no longer need to report positive train control expenditures, but will now be required to submit weekly reports on two critical service metrics.
The board first proposed these changes in October 2025. The new required metrics are original estimated time of arrival (OETA) and industry spot and pull (ISP). The reports will provide the STB more insight into trends to ensure rail service reliability, board officials said in a press release. Class Is must submit the first OETA and ISP reports on July 8.
The OETA metric is calculated as the percentage of all manifest shipments on a railroad's system in a week that were delivered to the final destination no later than 24 hours post OETA. The ISP metric measures a railroad's success in performing drop offs and pickups of loaded rail cars and unloaded private or shipper-leased cars at facilities during planned service windows.
Also last week, the STB launched the beta version of its Open Data Portal, which is part of the agency's ongoing data modernization efforts. The portal will help organize and increase the accessibility and usability of the STB's collected railroad data.