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Record W646031973

AT LONG LAST : ALTHOUGH THE RECENTLY ENACTED SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BILL PROVIDES RECORD LEVELS OF FEDERAL FUNDING...

2005· article· en· W646031973 on OpenAlex
Jay Landers

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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

VenueCivil engineering · 2005
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBusiness, Management and Accounting
TopicTransport and Economic Policies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEquity (law)State highwayState (computer science)BusinessSeawallFinanceTransport engineeringPublic administrationEngineeringPolitical scienceLaw
DOInot available

Abstract

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This article discusses the distribution of funds from the 2005 the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU). The discussion looks at SAFETEA-LU from the dynamics of donor and donee states to the earmarks given to important highway and public transportation projects. The bill, which allocated nearly 79.4 percent of its $286.5 budget to highway projects and about 18.5 percent for public transportation, marked about 2.2 percent ($6.3 billion) of its funding for highway safety programs. Under the category of “Projects of National and Regional Significance”, the article lists 24 projects, indicating the state(s) involved, project description, and amount of money allocated. A second chart titled “National Corridor Infrastructure Improvement Program” lists 33 projects of significance. The article names a few of the specific highway projects earmarked for special funding, such as $200 million for the Washington State DOT’s Alaskan Way Viaduct and Seawall Replacement; $125 million for the Alameda Corridor East project in Alameda County, California; finally, the additional capacity lanes that have been planned for Virginia’s I-81 have been designated to get about $100 million. The bill has also set aside quite a bit of funding for border region infrastructure to help facilitate cross-border cargo movement between the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Environmental organizations such as the Sierra Club have expressed some discomfort with certain regulations accompanying SAFETEA-LU, however, as it attempts to expedite the role of NEPA in the approval process for transportation projects by limiting the amount of time allowed for legal cases to be brought against the DOT for possible violations. The article also describes the stimulation this bill introduces for the public-private partnership market.

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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)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.580
Threshold uncertainty score0.734

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 communication0.0000.001
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 head0.022
GPT teacher head0.199
Teacher spread0.177 · 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