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Overview The Federal government has long recognized and promoted the benefits of coordinating human services transportation. The Coordinating Council on Access and Mobility (CCAM), an interagency group comprised of senior leadership from multiple Federal depa...

The Federal government has a long history of recognizing the need for coordination between governmentally funded public and human service transportation programs. As early as 1977, the General Accounting Office (GAO — later renamed as the Government Accountabi...

This project is being sponsored by the USDOT’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. The purpose of this program is to invite small businesses, with their valuable resources and creative capabilities, to submit innovative research ideas and soluti...

This project seeks innovative solutions for a cost allocation method/technology that accounts for divergent Federal requirements and funding sources by trip. The development of an allocated cost model for NEMT can result in improved coordination across multipl...

1 U.S. Department of Transportation and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Final Report on the DOT/DHS Coordination Roundtable, U.S. Department of Transportation, Technology Sharing Program, August 1992, p 10. 2 General Accountability Office, Trans...

Cost allocation in the public transit field consisted primarily of locally developed methods until 1987 when FTA sponsored research created a specific framework for cost allocation techniques and methods. This document was directed toward providers of fixed ro...

Medicaid is generally recognized as the U.S. government’s largest entitlement program. As a partnership between the Federal government and the states, the individual states have been provided great latitudes in structuring the Medicaid program within the respe...

Transportation providers involved in coordination efforts require specialized software tools to properly allocate costs. Three recent research studies document the conceptualization and development of transportation coordination software, which demonstrates th...

Based on the data entered in the Service Data page which is the previous year's service information you can calculate the fully allocated cost of a 'Service'. By entering three fields of information you can run the fully allocated cost of that service, see im...

Overview v.2.1.0’s release includes three ways a user can access the Cost Calculator to cost a transportation trip, as well as new additional features to enhance the capabilities when costing a trip. The three ways to Cost a Trip are; A standalone service...

Operating expenses are expenditures incurred by a transit agency in providing public transportation service. Operating expenses for transit agencies generally include, but are not limited to, salaries and wages, fringe benefits, services, fuel and lubricants, ...

Labor expenses arise from the performance of work by employees. Labor expenses include pay and allowances owed to employees in exchange for the services provided to the transit agency. It also includes bonuses, shift differentials, overtime premiums, minimum g...

Operators’ salaries and wages include the cost of labor, excluding paid absences and fringe benefits, for the transit agency's employees who are classified as revenue vehicle operators or crewmembers. These expenses include wages for performing activities rela...

This includes vacation leave, sick time, and other paid time off not contingent on a specific event outside the control of the transit agency for revenue vehicle operators or crewmembers.

This object class includes the cost of labor, excluding paid absences and fringe benefits, of employees of the transit agency who are not classified as revenue vehicle operators or crewmembers (e.g., maintenance workers, administrative staff, and transit manag...

This includes vacation leave, sick time, and other paid time off not contingent on a specific event outside the control of the transit agency for its employees that are not classified as revenue vehicle operators or crewmembers.

Fringe benefits are the expenses for employment benefits that an employee receives in addition to his or her base salaries and wages. Fringe benefits include payments associated with the employee's labor that do not arise from the performance of work, but stil...

The expenses in the following three object classes include products obtained from outside suppliers or those manufactured internally. The cost of the material or supply includes freight-in, purchase discounts, cash discounts, sales taxes, and excise taxes (exc...

This object class includes fuel used to propel revenue and non-revenue vehicles and lubricants such as motor oil, transmission fluid, and grease. Purchase and cash discounts are included in the cost of the fuel or lubricant.

This object class includes the cost of tires and tubes, whether they are rented, leased or purchased. The agency does not report rented and leased tires and tubes under Operating Lease Expenses (5220). Purchase discounts, cash discounts, sales taxes, and excis...