Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article describes the successes of public transport in Perth, Western Australia (WA), a marked difference from the poor quality public transport experienced in Melbourne and Sydney. Public transport use in Perth has grown by 32% in the period 1992-2005 and bus services feed into the new urban rail link, the Mandurah line. The author explores how and why this success story happened in a city that had been dominated by urban freeways and road building for many years. He focuses on the role that community campaigning and action groups played in this transformation, as well as the shifting political support that eventually moved away from road building towards urban rail and integration. The author concludes that establishment of an integrated public transport authority with control over rail and bus (Transperth) was inspirational and brought Perth into line with successful European cities like Zurich and with Vancouver in Canada. The discussion emphasizes lessons learned in Perth that could be used to rescue the public transportation systems in Melbourne and Sydney. This article was previously published in D!SSENT Number 32, Autumn/Winter 2010.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.011 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.013 | 0.017 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.009 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.034 | 0.010 |
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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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".