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Record W574587014

THE COST OF BEING PROFITABLE

2002· article· en· W574587014 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Diane Burns

Bibliographic record

VenueRailway gazette international · 2002
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBusiness, Management and Accounting
TopicTransport and Economic Policies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDeregulationTransport engineeringBusinessRail freight transportEngineeringAgricultural economicsOperations managementFinanceEconomicsMarket economy
DOInot available

Abstract

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Union Pacific and Burlington Northern Sante Fe are planning to raise their freight tariffs by an average of 13%. Rail freight rates in North America and Canada are the lowest in the world and have been falling since deregulation in 1980. The low rates have been achieved by changes in the role of the North American rail operators. The major railways are increasingly acting as transport wholesalers and much of the low-density network has been abandoned or sold to short-line operators. Costs have been transferred to shippers and suppliers. Savings have also come from technical improvements. Heavier axleloads have allowed the maximum wagon capacity to be increased. Railways have developed specialised wagons and increased wagon leasing. Employee numbers have decreased and higher quality rail, improved lubrication and maintenance practices have been introduced. The economic problems associated with short-term policies are discussed.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

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)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.809
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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 head0.019
GPT teacher head0.209
Teacher spread0.190 · 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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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