Canada-Quebec - National Report for TS1: Taking Sustainable Development into Consideration in Quebec's Road Transportation System: a Daily Challenge at the Ministere des Transports du Quebec (MTQ)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
With the adoption in 2006 of the Sustainable Development Act, the Government of Quebec established a management framework for all government departments and public service agencies. The Ministere des Transports du Quebec (MTQ), which had already adopted in 1992 an environmental policy consistent with a strategy to foster sustainable development, will continue, as part of efforts to continually improve, to take sustainable development into account in its products, services and activities. This report provides an overview of the situation as regards both the steps taken by Quebec with respect to sustainable development and those taken by the Ministere des Transports du Quebec, particularly as regards road transportation. Sustainability issues were identified in the Ministere's 2005-2008 Strategic Plan. These issues were divided under the three pillars of sustainable development, i.e., the environmental, social and economic fields. An analysis of each of these issues makes it possible to assess the steps taken by the Ministere with respect to sustainable development and examine actions and achievements. In order to ensure appropriate consideration for the environment and sustainable development, the Ministere intends to implement an environmental management system (EMS), a comprehensive approach to environmental management and sustainable development, which would become part of its management system and be ISO 14001 compliant, in continuation of its environmental policy. All of the management tools implemented will be coherently organized to make sure environmental and sustainable development issues are appropriately taken into account in day-to-day management, thus fostering the ongoing improvement of its environmental performance. The Ministere, whose sustainable development efforts are consistent with government priorities, will ensure that sustainable development is taken into account in the transportation sector, and more particularly in road transportation. It is currently developing various action plans for implementation, including one with a particular focus on sustainable development. For the covering abstract see ITRD E139491.
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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 | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.016 | 0.002 |
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".