'Link' and 'place': a new approach to street planning and design
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
The paper describes the development and application of a new approach to planning and designing urban streets, based on their “Link” and “Place” functions, which include transport performance, economy and environmental indicators. As a Link, a street is for movement and designed for users to pass through as quickly and conveniently as possible, in order to minimise travel time; while as a Place, the street is a destination in its own right, where people are encouraged to spend time taking part in activities. Both functions have their own sets of design requirements. This approach has led to the development of new ways of: 1. Classifying all urban streets, using a two-dimensional Link/Place matrix; 2. Measuring street performance and identifying aspects that are underperforming; 3. Prioritising areas for improvement; 4. Comprehensively assessing design area requirements; 5. Developing design options; 6. Appraising design options. The approach has been applied in several English cities, in a wide range of applications, from assessing the performance of London’s strategic road network, and engaging stakeholders in the redesign of busy shopping streets, to specifying maintenance requirements in an area-wide private finance initiative highway contract. (a) For the covering record of the conference, please refer to ITRD no. E218380.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it