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Record W2026191820 · doi:10.3141/2118-05

Driving Factors behind Successful Carpool Formation and Use

2009· article· en· W2026191820 on OpenAlexafffundabout
Ron Buliung, Kalina Soltys, Catherine Habel, Ryan Lanyon

Bibliographic record

VenueTransportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board · 2009
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicTransportation and Mobility Innovations
Canadian institutionsBaycrest HospitalGeneral Electric (Canada)University of Toronto
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsCarpoolTRIPS architectureTransport engineeringService (business)Work (physics)Public transportSustainable transportLevel of serviceBusinessEngineeringSustainabilityMarketing

Abstract

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Sustainable transportation options are receiving increasing attention in cities across North America because of rising commute times, fluctuating fuel prices, and increased awareness of the environmental impacts of transportation choices. Carpooling represents one of many possible alternatives to single-occupancy vehicle use for work or school trips. Recent attempts to encourage carpool formation in Canada include web-based applications that facilitate connections between potential carpoolers. One such example is Carpool Zone, a service provided by Smart Commute in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton area. The service is coordinated regionally by the Smart Commute Team at Metrolinx (the regional transportation planning authority) and is free and open to the public. Data are used from Smart Commute to investigate the carpool formation and use process. Results from a logistic regression analysis of carpool use suggest that spatial accessibility to matches, household auto ownership, and sociodemographics influence carpooling more than do proximity to carpool infrastructure and personal attitudes (e.g., concern for the environment, cost). With respect to policy and planning, results suggest that increasing shared knowledge about commuting patterns at the home end of work trips could yield beneficial returns to the carpool formation and use process.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.005
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation 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 score0.059
Threshold uncertainty score0.117

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.005
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.001

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 head0.071
GPT teacher head0.349
Teacher spread0.277 · 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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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Citations71
Published2009
Admission routes3
Has abstractyes

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