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My Courses Cost Allocation Meets Coordination: A Mini-Course ... Cost Allocation Meets Coordination: A Mini-Course for Human Services Transportation Providers Not Attempted 0 % Developed by the National Aging and Disability Transportation Center (NADTC), this brief, online, 3-module course will help you understand why you need to go through the cost allocation process, and how it can help you do a better job of managing your tra... View More Developed by the National Aging and Disability Transportation Center (NADTC), this brief, online, 3-module course will help you understand why you need to go through the cost allocation process, and how it can help you do a better job of managing your transportation program. Through this pre-recorded online training you will learn how to: understand and use easy-to-understand cost allocation models; figure out your true operating costs; determine fares and contract rates; determine the difference between pricing, cost and value; and then communicate this to others! Participants will leave with a better sense of how your fully allocated costs can be an important tool for your coordination efforts. View Less
	Cost Allocation Meets Coordination Mini Course Certificate of Completion More Info Less Info Not Attempted No Details Available. Link to National RTAP Cost Allocation Calculator More Info Less Info Not Attempted Welcome to the Two-Variable Cost Allocation Calculator resource page. As a requirement of reporting to the National Transit Database (NTD), public transit agencies must be able to provide expense information by different travel modes, jurisdictions, and service types. Transit agencies must also understand the costs of different services for managing federal and state grants as well as pricing and planning for new services. This can be a very complicated, resource draining and time-consuming process especially for transit agencies with multiple modes, service types and serving multiple jurisdictions. The Two-Variable Cost Allocation Calculator can help transit agencies make the process of cost allocation a little less daunting. The Two-Variable Cost Allocation Calculator, developed by Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) and RLS & Associates, Inc. for National RTAP, is available as an MS Excel or MS Access application. Both versions provide the same level of specificity for data inputs and produce output reports for individual routes/services or groups of routes. We offer two versions to address your preference in software applications. (Note: you do not need Access installed to run the Access version if you first download the Microsoft Access 2016 Runtime or Office 365 Access Runtime extension.) Get started using the Two-Variable Cost Allocation Calculator by creating a new National RTAP Cloud account or logging into your existing Cloud account. Once logged in you will be able to download the Excel or Access versions of the calculator. Please also review the instruction manual for detailed step-by-step information on using the applications. The instruction manual can be found under Support Handout Cost Allocation Resources More Info Less Info Not Attempted No Details Available. Module 1 More Info Less Info 0 % Not Attempted First in the series of 3 modules in this mini-course. This class goes through the basics of cost allocation, demonstrates how to use the cost allocation model and how you can apply it to forecasting and setting fares. Module 2 More Info Less Info 0 % Not Attempted This course illustrates reasons to allocate your costs, and how your fully allocated cost can be a tool for coordination. Module 3 More Info Less Info 0 % Not Attempted This class will identify the difference between pricing, cost, value and how to communicate these to others.