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Record W585476715

Automated Vehicle Tracking and Billing System for Snowplows

2008· article· en· W585476715 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
A Lo, Sharla Griffiths

Bibliographic record

VenueSeventh International Conference on Managing Pavement AssetsTransportation Research BoardAlberta Infrastructure and Transportation, CanadaFederal Highway Administration · 2008
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicTransportation Safety and Impact Analysis
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsGlobal Positioning SystemTracking systemSoftware deploymentTruckSoftwareComputer scienceAutomatic vehicle locationAutomationTransport engineeringEngineeringTelecommunicationsSoftware engineeringOperating system
DOInot available

Abstract

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Alberta Transportation (AT) has partnered with the province’s private highway maintenance contractors (HMC) on an innovative project to equip all snowplows with an Automated Vehicle Location System (AVLS). The primary objectives are to monitor and audit the work being done by the HMC and to increase productivity and efficiency through a newly-developed automated billing system. The entire AVLS consists of two basic components – hardware and software. The truck-mounted hardware consists of a Global Positioning System (GPS) unit, a wireless communications device, and sensors that provide real time data input on the use of the plow equipment (plow blade actions, spreader controls, and pre-wetting actions). The software program developed specifically for this project will collect snowplow data such as location, speed, truck identification, and actions, and automatically generate a billing record for AT to review and approve for payment. This will be the first deployment of such an automated billing system based on GPS tracking by a transportation agency anywhere in North America. In addition to the main benefits, other potential uses of this system are: the ability of the department and HMC to monitor the amount and location of salt and sand being placed so as to mitigate environmental impacts; in conjunction with other intelligent transportation systems (ITS) technologies such as the Road Weather Information System (RWIS), to optimize equipment resources during storm events; in conjunction with other department computer programs as a post-storm analysis tool based on the information gathered; and to assist with inquiries from the public and possible litigation matters.

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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 categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.571
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 studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
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 head0.040
GPT teacher head0.306
Teacher spread0.266 · 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 designObservational
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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