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Record W2242337013

Using CFS Data to Guide Regional Transportation Policy and Investment

2006· article· en· W2242337013 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Scott Drumm

Bibliographic record

VenueTransportation research circular · 2006
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBusiness, Management and Accounting
TopicTransportation Systems and Infrastructure
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsContext (archaeology)CommodityInvestment (military)BusinessOrder (exchange)Data collectionSet (abstract data type)Transport engineeringFinanceComputer scienceEngineeringGeographyPolitical sciencePolitics
DOInot available

Abstract

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Commodity Flow Survey (CFS) data has played a significant role to help set the context for regional transportation policy and investment decisions in the Portland–Vancouver region. Data from the CFS has been a primary input into the region’s Commodity Flow Forecast (1997) and the update in 2002. The CFS has also provided data that has helped answer business community questions about freight flows and engaged them in policy discussions regarding the Columbia River crossing as part of the Interstate 5 Trade Corridor project. Both directly and indirectly, the CFS has been very helpful in helping us set the context for freight movement and to put freight issues on the regional transportation agenda. CFS data gives us the ability to frame the issues, convey the order of magnitude of freight’s importance, and to identify areas where further data is needed. Ultimately, we would like to be able to use the data at a project level, but the CFS doesn’t provide enough detail. That is to say, we would like to have the data at detail level sufficient to help make the case for a specific investment or to prioritize among competing investments. However, even at current levels of detail, the CFS has been useful. Due in part to CFS data in our Commodity Flow Forecast, we have secured $500,000 in regional funding for a freight data collection project that will provide us with some of the detail we need to make specific investment decisions, such as origin–destination and time of day data. This presentation showed how and why our region has successfully used CFS data, identified where we have found gaps and problems, and suggested alternatives for making CFS data more accessible and more useful at a regional level.

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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)0.010
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.049
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: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.278
Threshold uncertainty score0.552

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0100.049
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0080.012
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0040.004
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0140.005

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 head0.157
GPT teacher head0.371
Teacher spread0.214 · 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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