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Public Transport Policy in Australia: A Density Delusion?

2010· article· en· W577391676 on OpenAlex
Paul Mees

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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

VenueWorld Transport Policy and Practice · 2010
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicUrban Transport and Accessibility
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPublic transportSustainable transportJourney to workTRIPS architectureTransportation planningPopulationPrivate transportCensusEconomic growthBusinessRegional scienceTransport engineeringSociologySustainabilityEconomicsEngineering
DOInot available

Abstract

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In this article, the author makes the case that urban planning is focused on the wrong issues, maintaining that increasing car use and automobile dependency is not a universal phenomenon linked to increasing incomes and wealth. Using the example of Zurich, the author describes why Zurich has much better sustainable transport outcomes than most cities can manage. Although Zurich is the wealthiest city in the world, walking, cycling and public transport experience high shares of the transportation load. Zurich’s successes are found to be not the result of bigger budgets or due to urban density explanations. The author describes the high level of management and organizational integration and co-ordination across all modes of transport in Zurich, noting that they are absent in Melbourne and Sydney. Rail transport service in Melbourne is used as a comparison to Zurich; results illuminate fragmentation and lack of co-ordination in rail transport services in Melbourne. These problems are exacerbated by the Australian fascination with privatization and public-private financing contracts. The author concludes with a discussion of the evidence around population density and the modal share of public transport in a number of world cities, finding that density is not a convincing explanation for the differences in public transport performance in these cities. One table gives the census figures for density and the share of work trips made by “sustainable‟ modes (public transport, walking and cycling) from the most recent census in here countries (2006 for Australia and Canada; 2000 for the United States). This article was previously published in D!SSENT Number 32, Autumn/Winter 2010.

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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)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.462
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.002
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
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 head0.067
GPT teacher head0.380
Teacher spread0.313 · 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