Evaluation of the Economic Feasibility of Weigh-In-Motion in Canada
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Over weighted trucks are the cause of many issues including pavement premature deterioration, mistimed maintenance, and high pavement life cycle cost. To comply with weight enforcement and to preserve highway, Weigh-In-Motion (WIM) has been focused on using state-of-the-art sensing technology to continuously collect vehicle weights, speeds, vehicle classes, and various types of traffic data as vehicles travel over a set of sensors (embedded or portable), without interruption of traffic flows. This paper will examine the capability and applicability of WIM from an economic perspective in Canada. A complete benefit-cost study in three aspects, delay time benefit, safety benefit, and level of enforcement benefit, for Canadian road network are quantified. Variables that alter the magnitudes of the benefits and costs are carefully chosen. A sensitivity analysis and a break-even analysis are performed. An application of WIM in Canada is addressed to demonstrate the economic feasibility. The analysis result shows that an integrated benefit-cost ratio of 12 can be achieved. WIM deployment is economically feasible for the circumstances in Canada.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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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 it