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Record W2340764542

A Survey of Utility Coordination Practices in the Toronto Area

2015· article· en· W2340764542 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
H Monri

Bibliographic record

VenueTAC 2015: Getting You There Safely - 2015 Conference and Exhibition of the Transportation Association of Canada // ATC: Destination sécurité routière - 2015 Congrès et Exposition de l'Association des transports du Canada · 2015
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicUnderground infrastructure and sustainability
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsRelocationTimelineBusinessInterviewAgency (philosophy)Process (computing)Operations managementEngineeringComputer science
DOInot available

Abstract

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Due to the many uses and the resulting lack of space within a municipally owned right-of-way, utility companies are often required to accommodate requests to relocate their assets. These requests come from external agencies such as the City of Toronto, Ontario Ministry of Transportation, Metrolinx, as well as private developers, to name a few. Relocation requests can be difficult to coordinate and cause frequent project delays and cost overruns. While it is important for the requesting agencies to clearly define the requirements of the relocation that is required, it is also important for utility companies to have a process that sufficiently meets the needs of the requesting agency. This report aims to identify best practices for processing relocation requests among utility companies from the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) by interviewing representatives from utility companies who are responsible for coordinating relocation projects. Data collected from these interviews determined that the process that each company uses is generally a combination of common implementation methods, depending on the overall structure of the utility company. Despite these differences, successful utility companies ensure that they are able to determine the horizontal alignments to where they are relocating early in the coordination, and maintain a project timeline within one year. Utility companies that do not already incorporate these steps should strive to meet these goals. Requesting agencies must also take into consideration that coordinating relocation projects is not the primary line of business for utility companies, and that there are due processes that must be followed to execute a relocation project. As such, it is recommended that utility companies work with external agencies that frequently request relocation work, to devise a process that is mutually beneficial and agreeable.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.005
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.199
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0050.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.018
GPT teacher head0.244
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 teacher head, not a consensus.

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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Citations3
Published2015
Admission routes1
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