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Record W2604640940

Popularizing Cycling in Europe: Where Did Britain Miss the Turning?

2016· article· en· W2604640940 on OpenAlexaff
Cherona Chapman

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicUrban Transport and Accessibility
Canadian institutionsTrent University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCyclingIncentiveGeographyPolitical scienceRegional scienceEconomic geographyEconomics
DOInot available

Abstract

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In recent decades, responses to calls for sustainable transport have been extremely varied, and these spatial distinctions can be seen no clearer than in Europe. Cycling rates across the continent were pretty low in the 1970s, but contemporary conditions have seen the Netherlands, Denmark and Germany emerge as global leaders, whilst the UK has fallen behind. This article investigates how a geographic disparity in European cycling attitudes has arisen, and compares approaches from the continent to identify potential changes that could increase cycling uptake in Britain. Similarities were discovered between European approaches in infrastructure and policy, but the limited spatial implementation and interregional variation of these in Britain has led to isolated cycle-friendly regions. Furthermore, there are significantly more incentive based policies in the global leaders than the UK. These discoveries suggest a more comprehensive infrastructure and enticing set of policies could improve conditions in one of Europe’s former cycling friendly nations.

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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)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.005
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: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.054
Threshold uncertainty score0.108

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.005
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0030.004
Scholarly communication0.0060.004
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0030.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.001

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 head0.021
GPT teacher head0.296
Teacher spread0.275 · 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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