Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Bus rapid transit (BRT) is increasingly advocated as a lower-cost, more flexible alternative to urban rail, with Ottawa hailed as the pre-eminent BRT success story. However, there has been little detailed analysis of the effectiveness of Ottawa's BRT system in bringing about a mode shift away from the car. This article seeks to address this deficiency by analysing the performance of the city's public transport and the role of BRT in this performance. We conclude that public transport in Ottawa can indeed be considered successful, but that BRT is not the main reason for this success. The cause was rather an integrated package of policies introduced in the 1970s, which changed the relative convenience of car and public transport travel. These policies, rather than the precise technology used for the trunk section of the public tranport system, should be the focus of planning for reduced automobile dependence.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.067 | 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 it