Optimizing RWIS Locations with Wasserstein Distance and Geostatistics: A Case Study in South Korea
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Abstract
Road Weather Information Systems (RWISs) are essential components of modern Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSs) deployed in cold regions to gather real-time data on winter weather and road surface conditions. Despite their benefits, the high cost associated with RWIS installations demands optimized placement strategies to maximize their utility and cost-effectiveness. Geostatistics-based RWIS location-allocation methods, particularly those involving semivariogram modeling to quantify underlying spatial characteristics, have gained international recognition. However, new locations require unique semivariogram models, a process that is time-consuming and constrained by the availability of comprehensive datasets, often rendering location analysis challenging or infeasible. Addressing these limitations, this study introduces an innovative approach using Wasserstein Distance (WD) to link semivariograms across different datasets. This method streamlines optimization by eliminating the need for repetitive semivariogram modeling in new study areas. Our findings demonstrate that WD-matched models replicate the location choices of original models with a high degree of similarity while ensuring that clean-slate locations remain proximate to those of original models, enhancing geographic equity in RWIS deployment. This validates the practicality of reusing developed semivariogram parameters for WD-matched highways, significantly reducing the need for new geostatistical analyses and enhancing the framework’s applicability and accessibility for RWIS deployment across diverse geographic regions.
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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
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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 | 0.000 |
| 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)
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 teacher head, not a consensus.
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