Emergency Replacement of Ferry Berthing Structures at the Orcas Island Ferry Terminal
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Washington State Ferries (WSF) is the largest ferry operator in North America with service between 20 different terminals, including one on Orcas Island, one of the San Juan Islands. Located between Vancouver Island, Canada and the Washington State mainland, Orcas Island is a community of 4,500 and, as a popular tourist destination, the number of people on the island often doubles. Ferry service through the single slip terminal is the main link for getting onto or off of the island and is considered part of the state highway system. This paper presents the planning, design, and construction of the $3.8 million replacement facilities. All activities were conducted within a very aggressive schedule made possible by a cooperative and simultaneous effort between the designers, the construction managers, the contractor, and the ferry operators. Project features included two phases of temporary vehicle service through the construction zone, new support structures for the transfer span, and new steel wingwalls. One other project feature was an innovative ductile batter pile to cap connection for the transfer span support towers to limit the seismic uplift demand.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 0.001 |
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.
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.
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".