The taxi voucher plan is also meant to be cost-effective, city officials said, since the average cab fare is lower than the cost of a single trip on Access-a-Ride, which the city subsidizes.
Not until the fall will the council be able to decide which outsourcing plans are cost-effective, city spokesman William Lobdell said before the meeting.
Not to mention that Dallas offers a more cost effective city to operate in, with lower living expenses than, say, San Francisco or New York.
MID was more effective in cities with stronger economies and more cost-effective in cities with higher levels of mosquito infestation.
Alexei Pozdnoukhov, director of the Smart Cities Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley, says that in the end, it might be more cost-effective for cities to try to use smartphones to track drivers' movements.
The fact that MID was more cost-effective in cities with higher mosquito infestation levels emphasizes the power of targeting vector control practices to areas in which gravid mosquitoes are most abundant.
"Water conservation ordinances and sustainable water policies are among the most cost-effective means for cities to address declining water supplies," Charming Evelyn, who heads the Sierra Club Angeles Chapter Water Committee, said in a statement.
Burlington's move is not only better for the environment — it's also cost-effective for the city's 42,000 residents and was the results of years of work by the state and Washington Electric to go renewable.
We are working with more than 40 cities around the world on water funds -- using a small levy on urban water consumption to help preserve the pristine area above a city, thereby ensuring clean, cost-effective drinking water for city residents.
International collaboration can help accelerate cost-effective climate action in cities.
This research focuses on demonstrating how clean energy policies and Low Emission Development Strategies (LEDS) can help achieve multiple energy, environmental, public health and economic benefits in a cost-effective way in Asian cities.
