Increasing transportation options through changes to urban form : a sustainability agenda for Winnipeg
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Abstract
Transportation systems which are heavily-reliant on the automobile are unsustainable due to their heavy costs for infrastructure and the impacts of the automobile on society and the environment.This practicum investigates ways to address the unsustainability of automobile-focused transportation systems by encouraging alternative travel modes through changes to urban form, specificaily increasing density and land use mix and pursuing urban design that is supportive of altemative modes.Transit oriented development (TOD) is one development approach that attempts to encourage altemative travel behaviour, but the concept has limitations; this practicum proposes an expanded conceptualization of TOD from a nodal forrn towards a nodes and corridors approach.Winnipeg is identified through a literature review and focus group research as a city that could benefit from having a more sustainable transportation system.lnternational and Canadian examples are investigated to see how urban regions around the world are addressing the question of transportation sustainability.Two major precedents, planning projects in Toronto and Minneapolis, are investigated to identify possible approaches to implementing these ideas.Research is also carried out in Winnipeg to understand the local context.Recommendations are then made to apply the lessons of the research to the Winnipeg planning context.Major recommendations are the closer integration of transportation and land use planning functions at the City of V/innipeg, the reformulation of plans and the Winnipeg Zoning Bylaw to reflect sustainable transportation priorities and the fostering of public debate around transportation and urban form sustainability.Research methods employed are document survey, personal interviews and a focus group with key informants.Chapters 3 and 4 consist of the minor and major'precedent studies' which are investigated to identify lessons and general principles that may useful for analyzing the Winnipeg context.Chapter 3 gives an overview of intemational and Canadian cities, each of which are at various stages of shifting towards more sustainable transportation systems, have taken various approaches to the problem and have had varying degrees of success.Chapter 4 is an in-depth investigation of planning projects in Toronto and Minneapolis that pursue sustainable transportation goals through a corridor redevelopment approach.The planning processes are described and analyzed, as are the policy contexts in which these projects are unfolding.Chapter 5 is the Wiruripeg case study, which investigates the existing policy context, describes administrative attempts to move towards a more integrated planning approach at the City of Winnipeg, and offers the results of a focus grr-]Lrp whicir djscussed the potential for applying a sustainable transportation agenda to Winnipeg.Chapter 6 offers recommendations for adapting Winnipeg planning policies and processes in pursuit of a sustainable transportation agenda.It attempts to combine the lessons of the literature review and precedent studies with the analysis of the Winnipeg case study in order to identify practical measures to improve planning in V/innipeg.Chapter 7 summarizes the research findings a.nd the resulting recommendations.It also suggests directions for future research.Chapters I and 9 are the bibliography and appendix, the latter containing the interview guides used for the interviews and the focus group carried out as part of this practicum.
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.000 |
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.
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".