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[quote user="V.Payne"] I think they just put the Avoidable Costs together as one would to determine a cost function at a factory or business, count heads, material, expendables from an analysis of the operations and internal records. I couldn't find the name of the guy, just recall reading it, but will IM it to you if I can find it. BTW, here is the <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/jobs2/view/10311249">advertisement</a> for a replacement. Take a look at the job duties. Why don't you just call them up and ask to speak to the individual. Partial description follows: "Route and Service Change Analysis: <ul> <li>Develops and delivers recommendations and supporting analyses for all service change requests.</li> <li>Uses the cost, capital and revenue models to estimate the operating cost, capital and revenue impacts.</li> <li>Evaluates criteria and analyses data regarding operating and overhead costs, as well as revenues that would be impacted by the proposed service change.</li> <li>Designs and conducts the appropriate analysis so that the conditions outlined in the proposed service changes are accurately reflected in the cost, capital and revenue analysis.</li> <li>Ensures that analyses of services that cross business line boundaries are properly structured to correctly depict financial and operating effects.</li> <li>Provides recommendations and reports in a consistent format.</li> </ul> State Supported Service Pricing: <ul> <li>Develops, manages, and delivers state payment forecasts, fixed fee rates, applicable additives and fees consistent with PRIIA section 209, and related data to Amtrak state partners for annual funding requirements, including operating revenues and costs and associated capital use charges.</li> <li>Prepares detailed cost proposal packages for submittal to the state partners, and participates in face-to-face presentations as necessary. The state payments total on order of $300 million annually. Become a PRIIA 209 State Pricing Methodology subject matter expert.</li> </ul>  Shared Functions and Expenses: <ul> <li>Performs analyses of functions and activities that result in significant costs that are allocated to routes and services.</li> <li>The focus of these analyses is to suggest areas and strategies for cost reduction that would benefit all services, but not any analysis that would merely suggest reallocation among services.</li> <li>Supports the work of process improvement and outsourcing teams created to effect cost savings in the designated areas.</li> </ul> Forecast Quality Assurance/Quality Control: <ul> <li>Reviews draft documents, compares forecast results to various benchmarks, and ensures that the work product is delivered at Finance Department quality standards.</li> <li>Recommendations must be based on a consistent, rigorous analytic approach and shaped in the context of broader business, market and policy considerations."[/quote]</li> </ul> <div>See below. For some reason the spacing would not take on this page, probably because of the pasted job description.</div>
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