# Reciprocal Switching for Inadequate Service
> **Surface Transportation Board** · Final rule. · Published 2024-05-07 · Effective 2024-09-04 · 89 FR 38646
## Document
- **Document number:** 2024-09483
- **Category:** other
- **Sub-agency:** Surface Transportation Board
- **Federal Register citation:** 89 FR 38646
- **CFR reference:** 49 CFR 1145
- **Publication date:** 2024-05-07
- **Effective date:** 2024-09-04
- **DOT docket:** Docket No. EP 711 (Sub-No. 2)
## Abstract

The Board adopts new regulations that provide for the prescription of reciprocal switching agreements as a means to promote adequate rail service through access to an additional line haul carrier. Under the new regulations, eligibility for prescription of a reciprocal switching agreement will be determined in part using objective performance standards that address reliability in time of arrival, consistency in transit time, and reliability in providing first-mile and last-mile service. The Board will also consider, in determining whether to prescribe a reciprocal switching agreement, certain affirmative defenses and the practicability of a reciprocal switching agreement. To help implement the new regulations, the Board will require all Class I railroads to submit certain service data on an ongoing and standardized basis, which will be generalized and publicly accessible. Railroads will also be required to provide individualized, machine-readable service data to a customer upon a written request from that customer.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/05/07/2024-09483/reciprocal-switching-for-inadequate-service)
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