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Record W566485206

Winnipeg Paves the Way in Fleet Management

2007· article· en· W566485206 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueTHE APWA REPORTER · 2007
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBusiness, Management and Accounting
TopicLife Cycle Costing Analysis
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsFleet managementProcurementAgency (philosophy)BusinessKey (lock)Government (linguistics)Operations managementTransport engineeringComputer scienceComputer securityMarketingEconomicsEngineering
DOInot available

Abstract

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This article focuses on the Winnipeg Fleet Management Agency (WFMA) in Manitoba, Canada. Established as a Special Operating Agency (SOA), the WFMA is directed at promoting a more affordable and effective civic government. The WFMA adopted a new business model concept which involves these key aspects: 1) operate a newer reliable fleet, 2) manage all purchases, maintenance and disposal from one central hub, and 3) utilize concrete data to manage fleet operations. The key operating principle under which the WFMA operates is the life cycle cost management (LCCM) concept. With this procurement methodology, fleet managers make financial decisions by considering all vehicle costs over the life of the vehicle. Through the LCCM, strategic guidance is provided in vehicle procurement, tracking and assessment of repair and maintenance costs and fuel services, and optimization of each vehicle’s residual value. The article concludes with a discussion of the benefits involved in using LCCM, including cost savings to city departments as well as taxpayers.

Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.200
Threshold uncertainty score0.391

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.018
GPT teacher head0.237
Teacher spread0.219 · 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