Climate Change Engineering Vulnerability Assessment of Transportation Infrastructure in British Columbia - Phase II
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In December of 2009 the BC Provincial government put into place a BC Climate Adaptation Strategy. The Strategy calls on ministries to consider climate impacts, where relevant, in service and business plans, projects, legislation, regulations, and approvals. In accordance with the Strategy, the BC Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure considers potential climate change and impacts, in planning, projects, policies, legislation, regulations and approvals. Ministry areas affected include: Operational Programs, Engineering Programs, and Maintenance Programs. In response to potential climate issues, the Ministry of Transportation, Chief Engineer's Office, is engaged in case studies to examine climate risk to BC transportation infrastructure and what engineering adaptation is required for a 50 to100 year planning horizon. The Ministry is engaged with other national, provincial and academic organizations in developing experience and expertise in this field. Climate risk case studies have been completed for sections of the Coquihalla Highway 5 and Yellowhead Highway 16 in BC using the Climate Change Infrastructure Vulnerability Assessment Protocol (PIEVC). The results from examining forecast climate and infrastructure interactions including findings and recommendations and any required remedial action will be addressed. These studies assist the Ministry in planning for potential climate change. The results from these studies of the Coquihalla and Yellowhead Highways will provide background guidance in reviewing design standards for highway infrastructure in British Columbia. For the covering abstract of this conference see record control number 201111RT334E.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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 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".