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Record W2207635070

Innovation to Minimize the Impact of Road Work in Canada

2007· article· en· W2207635070 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
David Hein

Bibliographic record

VenueChoice for Sustainable Development. Pre-Proceedings of the 23rd PIARRC World Road CongressWorld Road Association - PIARC · 2007
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicInfrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsTollTransport engineeringToll roadPrecast concreteWork (physics)EngineeringTruckCivil engineering
DOInot available

Abstract

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Highway and municipal traffic in Canada, particularly in the major urban areas, continues to rise. In the Toronto area, Highway 401 is the major east/west corridor and has annual average daily traffic levels exceeding 400,000. While an express toll route that opened in 1996 was expected to ease traffic on Highway 401, traffic levels on the toll route are also quite high. With increasing heavy vehicle traffic, the highway infrastructure is deteriorating more rapidly than expected which has resulted in the need to renew and repair the highway infrastructure. In order to minimize the impact of the road construction on the highway users, both the highway and toll road agencies have turned to innovation in design, construction and traffic management. This has included the use of advanced warning systems for construction, provision of the same number of lanes during construction, performance incentives and penalties, use of police presence, pavement construction innovations such as fast track concrete, pre-cast concrete panels, thin surface restoration techniques such as micro-surfacing and texturization, dowel bar retrofit, foaming injection to stabilize concrete slabs, slab stitching, etc. This paper provides an overview of the innovations to minimize the impact of road construction on the traveling public and surrounding home owners and businesses.

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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)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.087
Threshold uncertainty score0.633

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0060.002
Scholarly communication0.0030.001
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

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 head0.006
GPT teacher head0.232
Teacher spread0.226 · 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 designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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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Published2007
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