YISD's Transportation Department should fully recover the variable cost of using MCI coaches. TSPR has calculated that these rate would allow the Transportation Department to recover the variable cost for these field trips. The director of Transportation institutes the higher charges for field trips. August 1998 2. The critical role of such monitoring cannot be underestimated.
Some organizations use performance measures specifically to cut costs.
United Parcel Service has had a specific company goal to reduce its maintenance costs by 10 percent and many other transportation organizations have set goals at a similar general level. These indicators now are tracked on a regular basis and district officials say the indicators have created healthy competition among mechanics. HISD cannot identify specific savings, however, given the newness of its program. These indicators are interrelated and have some degree of overlap. A high percentage of preventive maintenance checks done on time, for instance, will reduce the level of accidents due to mechanical failure.