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The economic potential of a Hagersville by-pass

2014· article· en· W2947676353 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Wilrik Banda

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Atrium (University of Guelph) · 2014
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicRegional Economics and Spatial Analysis
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEconomic potentialEconomicsEconomic growth
DOInot available

Abstract

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Transportation is a continuously evolving aspect of planning that requires long range forecasting and social and economic impact assessments. The ability to forecast the future in transportation is also based on current trends in housing, commercial and industrial development. The planned community of Townsend is a prime example of the major implications long range transportation planning can have on a region when the end result do not meet the expectations. This research paper is exploring past decisions, based on trends and development in the industrial sector, and the current implications these decisions have on the rural community of Hagersville, in Haldimand County, after the projected increase in population and development failed to materialize in Townsend and the Nanticoke Industrial Park, and was subsequently abandoned in the 1980's. A historical account of the origins and development of the communities involved is outlined, which is followed by a description of the current state of the region. Comparisons are made with successful by-passes in parts of Southern Ontario, which will highlight successes and failures. This paper also relies on accounts from the local business community, municipal engineering department and officials. The analysis will present particular findings that will allow the Province of Ontario, and the County of Haldimand, to make a decision on whether a by-pass around the town of Hagersville is in the best interest of the region and its future. It has to be kept in mind that a possible by-pass around Hagersville would not only serve that community directly, but may have a larger impact on the region of Haldimand and Norfolk as a whole. The possibility to create better access into rural areas may be beneficial from an economic point of view due to the opportunities that may arise as a result.

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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)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.695
Threshold uncertainty score0.606

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0030.001
Scholarly communication0.0040.001
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0170.001

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 head0.010
GPT teacher head0.166
Teacher spread0.156 · 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 designNot applicable
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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