A Guide for Implementing Bus on Shoulder (BOS) Systems
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This report provides guidelines for the planning, design, and implementation of Bus On Shoulder (BOS) operations along urban freeways and major arterials. Making BOS a reality requires a closely coordinated partnership effort involving transit agencies, state departments of transportation (DOTs), metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs), enforcement agencies, and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). The report should be useful as a decision-making guide to assist transit operators, state DOTs, MPOs, and other stakeholders in assessing the feasibility of the BOS concept, developing safe and effective BOS plans, implementing initial BOS operations, and maintaining or expanding ongoing BOS operations. This guide includes seven case studies in the following cities: Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota; Miami-Dade, Florida; San Diego, California; Old Bridge, New Jersey; Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Columbus, Ohio; and Atlanta, Georgia.
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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
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 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 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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