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WINTER MAINTENANCE IN VAUGHAN : IMPROVING OPERATIONS AND COMMUNICATION THROUGH AN AVL SYSTEM

2004· article· en· W649978907 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

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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

VenueTHE APWA REPORTER · 2004
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicSmart Materials for Construction
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsGlobal Positioning SystemAutomatic vehicle locationThe InternetTransport engineeringTracking systemFleet managementInternet accessSoftwareManagement systemTelecommunicationsVehicle tracking systemInformation systemService (business)Computer scienceEngineeringComputer securityWorld Wide WebOperations managementOperating systemBusiness
DOInot available

Abstract

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This article relates the experiences of the City of Vaughan, Ontario, in using an automatic vehicle location (AVL) system with Global Positioning System (GPS) technology to manage its winter maintenance operations. It first reviews the three components that comprise an AVL system: vehicle hardware, communication system, and system software. The article next discusses the monitoring system which allows vehicles to be tracked through the Internet and can be tailored to the viewing capabilities of the different users of the system. A snow call center was also created to accommodate users without access to the Internet. The article also focuses on how the tracking system allows staff to determine if minimum maintenance standards and levels of service were being maintained. In addition, the article describes how the system enabled integrating the computerized salt spreaders with the system, thus providing information to meet the requirements of government- mandated road salt management plans.

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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: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.476
Threshold uncertainty score0.630

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 head0.010
GPT teacher head0.222
Teacher spread0.212 · 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