Transit Buses as Traffic Probes: Use of Geolocation Data for Empirical Evaluation
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Abstract
With the growing availability of data because of the deployment of intelligent transportation systems, methods for assessing and reporting traffic characteristics and conditions have begun to shift. Although previous level-of-service methods were developed for use with limited data, actual performance measures can now be developed and tested. On freeways, performance measures often are estimated directly by using data from inductive loop detectors (e.g., speed, occupancy, vehicle counts). For arterials with numerous signalized intersections, performance measures are more challenging because of more complicated traffic control and many origins and destinations. However, within signalized networks, travel time, speed, and other key performance measures can be obtained both directly and indirectly from sources such as automatic vehicle location (AVL) data. The use of AVL data for characterizing the performance of an arterial is demonstrated. First, data are extracted from the bus dispatch system of the Tri-County Metropolitan Transit District (TriMet), the transit provider for Portland, Oregon. Then, the performance characteristics as described by bus travel on an arterial are compared to ground truth data collected by probe vehicles equipped with Global Positioning System sensors traveling with normal (nontransit) traffic on the same arterial on the same days. Comparisons are made between the two methods, and some conclusions are drawn regarding the utility of the transit AVL data.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.005 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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