### Instruction:

Extract the cause and effect entities from the following sentence:
Similarly, co-location of related, sequential functional work areas can reduce transit time, communication errors, and operational delays

### Assistant:

NOT_RELEVANT: Similarly
EFFECT_1: can reduce transit time
EFFECT_2: communication errors
AND: and
EFFECT_3: operational delays
CAUSE_1: co-location of related, sequential functional work areas
VARIABLE: operational delays
CONDITION: can reduce

