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Record W1608823742

Cycling Trends and Policies in Canadian Cities

2005· article· en· W1608823742 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
John Pucher, Ralph Buehler

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicUrban Transport and Accessibility
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsUrban sprawlMetropolitan areaTRIPS architectureTransport engineeringGeographyCyclingSAFERWork (physics)Public transportJourney to workTravel behaviorLand useEngineeringCivil engineering
DOInot available

Abstract

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An average of 1.2% of work trips in Canada in 2001 were accounted for by bicycling, but this varied considerably by metropolitan area and by province. In this study, the authors chose six Canadian cities for detailed analysis of their bicycling trends and policies: Vancouver and Victoria in British Columbia; Montreal and Quebec City in Quebec; and Ottawa and Toronto in Ontario. All of these cities have made impressive efforts to encourage more and safer bicycling. Most of the cities report increases in bicycling levels over the past twenty years but appear to have reached a limit due to lack of financing for much needed bicycling infrastructure (bike lanes and paths, intersection modifications, parking, etc.). In addition, the low-density, automobile-oriented suburban sprawl spreading around most Canadian cities has been increasing trip distances, thus making bicycling less feasible outside the urban core. Finally, Canadian provinces and cities have not imposed any significant restrictions on car use or imposed increases in fees, taxes, and other charges for car use, such as most European cities have implemented in order to discourage driving and increase transit use, bicycling, and walking. If Canadian cities really want to further increase bicycling levels, they will have to further expand bicycling infrastructure, impose more charges and restrictions on car use, and curb low-density sprawl.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.278
Threshold uncertainty score0.694

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.023
GPT teacher head0.311
Teacher spread0.288 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2005
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