Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies (ITLS) Transport Opinion Survey (TOPS): Quarter 3, September 2013
Bibliographic record
Abstract
HighlightsInfrastructure increases as highest priority national issue • In the September 2013 quarter, 8% of Australians nominated transport and 14% nominated infrastructure as one of the two highest priority issues in Australia today. Public transport the highest priority for transport• Half (49%) of Australians said that the highest priority issue for transport in Australia is public transport improvements, followed by road improvements (31%). Transport not changing in local area• 58% of Australians said that transport in their local areas is the same now as one year ago, up from 56% in the March 2013 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• 25% of Australians think that transport in Australia will be better in one year's time, up from 24% in the March 2013 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 47% thinking that transport in Australia will be better in five years. ITLS Index of Transport Confidence• Compared to the launch of TOPS in March 2010, Australians are less confident about transport in their local areas in March 2013 (Confidence index: from 100 to 94), more confidence about transport in Australia in one year (Confidence index: from 100 to 104), and slightly more confident about transport in Australia in five year (Confidence index: from 100 to 101). Preferred Public Transport Investment between Light Rail and Bus Rapid Transit• 63% of Australians voted for Light Rail and 29% favoured Bus Rapid Transit as the preferred public transport investment.• Australians who have the experience of Bus Rapid Transit in their capital cities (Queensland and South Australia) view Bus Rapid Transit much more favourably. About the Transport Opinion SurveyThe Transport Opinion Survey is a biannual survey of 1,000 adults aged 18 years and over across Australia launched in March 2010.The sample is representative of Australia's population distribution and demographic characteristics.Interviews are conducted by telephone by Taverner Research using trained interviewers.The Quarter 3, September 2013 survey was conducted over 10-26 August 2013.Current issues in this quarter included the preferred public transport investment between Light Rail and Bus Rapid Transit. Infrastructure Transport © Transport Opinion SurveyNote: Responses were grouped into the above categories."Other" includes responses about transport in general, responses about both public transport and roads, and issues not included in other categories.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.008 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.063 | 0.032 |
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".