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From page 3...
... Detailed cost and service information can do the following: • Serve as a diagnostic tool that identifies specific areas of problems with performance, thus aiding in day-to-day management decision-making. • Assist in long-term planning and decision-making, such as requests for future funding from state legislatures or local governments.
From page 4...
... • Do multiple agencies need dispatchers, computers, maintenance facilities, training programs, accounting programs and staff, or even vehicles? • Is it possible to achieve the same or even greater levels of efficiency and effectiveness if some agencies that have been providing their own transportation services purchase those services from others instead?
From page 5...
... Departments of Health and Human Services, Education, and Labor -- along with the recipients of U.S. Department of Transportation funding -- constitute the primary audiences for this uniform transportation service cost reporting framework.


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