Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies (ITLS) Transport Opinion Survey (TOPS): Quarter 3, Sep 2012
Bibliographic record
Abstract
HighlightsInfrastructure increases as highest priority national issue In the September 2012 quarter, 8% of Australians nominated transport and 13% nominated infrastructure as one of the two highest priority issues in Australia today. Public transport the highest priority for transport Over half (51%) of Australians said that the highest priority issue for transport in Australia is public transport improvements, followed by road improvements (27%).Transport not changing in local area 55% of Australians said that transport in their local areas is the same now as one year ago, down from 56% in the March 2012 quarter (the last survey period).Low level of confidence about local transport in short-term Only 17% of Australians said that transport in their local areas will be better in one year's time.Views stable on transport in Australia in short-term 20% of Australians think that transport in Australia will be better in one year's time, down from 24% in the March 2012 quarter. Australians confident about transport in Australia in longer-term Australians continue to be more confident that transport in Australia will be better in five years than in one year, with 43% thinking that transport in Australia will be better in five years. ITLS Index of Transport Confidence The TOPS Index shows the lowest confidence levels in September 2012 with respect to transport in Australia in one year and transport in Australia in five years (Confidence index: 88 and 95 respectively); while confidence about transport in the local area slightly improved to 87, from 86 in the March 2012 quarter (the lowest index since the launch of TOPS in March 2010). Crowding on Local Train Services In the September 2012 quarter, 43% of Australians reported that the level of crowding on local train services in the peak is intolerable. Misinterpretation of Bus Rapid Transport (BRT) Bus Rapid Transit is an innovative public transport (PT) system and value for money investment in public transport, which involves buses on dedicated corridors.However, only 8% of Australians correctly described BRT as buses operating in their own corridor.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.068 | 0.040 |
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".