Freight distribution analysis and modelling of inland waterway transport using big data
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Abstract
The Yangtze River economic belt (YREB) serves as the main east–west axis of China to promote economic development and environmental protection along the Yangtze River (YR). The factors that affect the freight distribution of major types of cargo transported through the YR were analysed using automatic identification system data and ship visa data. First, a set of freight impedance functions was developed for different types of links of the waterway network, considering a number of factors (e.g. cargo type, delays at ship locks, water levels and flows at different waterway segments and upstream and downstream shipping speeds). Distance-based (DB) and time-based (TB) impedance matrices of different types of cargo were computed. A gravity model (GM) and an intervening opportunity model were then used to simulate the distributions of different types of cargo based on the computed impedance matrices. A trip length distribution method was applied to validate the estimated distribution models. The results showed that the GM with a power term outperformed the other models and that the TB models were superior to the DB models for the prediction of freight distributions over large geographies like the YREB. This work offers an in-depth understanding of the freight characteristics of inland waterways and therefore should be helpful for relevant authorities in formulating port and inland waterway plans and policies.
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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
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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)
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.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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