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Travel Forecaster
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Travel Forecaster
Menu-driven software saves time/money for planning travel
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Business travel planning within an organization is often a timeconsuming
task. Travel Forecaster is a menu-driven, easy-to-use program which plans,
forecasts cost, and tracks actual vs. planned cost for business-related
travel of a division or branch of an organization and compiles this
information into a database to aid the travel planner. The program's ability
to handle multiple trip entries makes it a valuable timesaving device.
Travel Forecaster takes full advantage of relational data base properties so
that information that remains constant, such as per diem rates and airline
fares (which are unique for each city), needs entering only once. A typical
entry would include selection with the mouse of the traveler's name and
destination city from pop-up lists, and typed entries for number of travel
days and purpose of the trip. Multiple persons can be selected from the
pop-up lists and multiple trips are accommodated by entering the number of
days by each appropriate month on the entry form. An estimated travel cost
is not required of the user as it is calculated by a Fourth Dimension
formula.
With this information, the program can produce output of trips by
month with subtotal and total cost for either organization or sub-entity of
an organization; or produce outputs of trips by month with subtotal and
total cost for international-only travel. It will also provide monthly and
cumulative formats of planned vs. actual outputs in data or graph form.
Travel Forecaster users can do custom queries to search and sort information
in the database, and it can create custom reports with the user-friendly
report generator.
Travel Forecaster carries the NASA case number LAR-14826. It was originally released as part of the NASA COSMIC collection.
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