PERFORMANCE MODELING AND COMPARATIVE LIFE-CYCLE ANALYSIS OF ENHANCED ASPHALT PAVEMENTS
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Modified asphalt pavement has been used in a significant number of pavement sections in the U.S. and Canada since the late 1980s, and it will be the only type of pavement that will meet new Strategic Highway Research Program performance grades in many applications. However, much more needs to be known about modified asphalt's performance and life-cycle costs. This research developed performance measurement techniques and conducted life cycle cost analyses on heavily traveled sections in Ontario, Canada. The study found significant cost savings with engineered asphalt on high-volume sections and on less busy sections where the design of the pavements and subgrades were appropriate for the loads. It also found that improved service life does not necessarily mean the pavement is cost-effective if other costs, such as user delay, are not included.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it