Statistical Analysis of LTPP SPS-3 Experiment on Preventive Maintenance of Flexible Pavements
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Abstract
This paper describes the evaluation of preventive treatments in mitigating the rate of distress propagation in flexible pavements. The analysis was based on data from preventive maintenance treatments data collected in the Long Term Pavement Performance (LTPP) program. Data were obtained from 81 sites across the United States and Canada that was part of the specific pavement experiments (SPS-3). SPS-3 was designed to monitor the performance of four treatments: thin overlay, chip seal, crack seal and slurry seal under different design conditions. Design conditions considered were precipitation, temperature, traffic, subgrade materials and pavement condition prior to applying preventive treatment. Fatigue cracking, rutting and longitudinal roughness data collected during the LTPP program were used to compare the overall performance of different treatments. A weighted average index was defined to represent the overall performance of the sections over the years. Statistical techniques were used to compare the effectiveness of each treatment in relation to others and the control section, which did not receive any treatment. Conclusions from the analyses indicated that thin overlay and chip seal are effective treatment options for most design conditions with respect to fatigue cracking. Thin overlay outperforms other treatments in most design conditions with respect to rutting and in some cases with respect to roughness. The difference between the performance of crack seal, slurry seal and control section was not found to be statistically significant with respect to any distress type and design factor.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.008 | 0.014 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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