BC Ferries Minor/Intermediate Standardized Berths
Bibliographic record
Abstract
British Columbia Ferry Services Inc. (BC Ferries) is an essential transportation link throughout the west coast of British Columbia, currently providing vehicle and passenger ferry service on 24 routes to 47 terminals, with a fleet of 33 vessels. About half of the vessels are considered minor/intermediate class vessels, with most varying in size, shape, freeboard, and mass. These variations create significant challenges for fleet interoperability. With aging vessels and terminal berth structures requiring phased replacement over a number of years, BC ferries was challenged to design a standardized berth ahead of the vessel replacement program, which would allow complete interoperability of the existing vessels and define the requirements for improved fits with the new vessels. Effectively, every minor/intermediate vessel was required to operate in every minor/intermediate berth, with some limitations accepted, until vessel replacement was completed. This paper discusses the initial and ongoing development of the “standardized berth concept” and covers areas such as the standardized berth requirement, vessel considerations, berth geometry, and features, ramp features, ramp to vessel interface considerations and constructability.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.018 | 0.003 |
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".