Traffic modifications at the UBC Botanical Garden
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This report provides engineering solutions devised towards the improvement of the UBC Botanical Garden. One issue of concern that is currently troubling the Garden is the environmental concern presented by an impervious parking lot floor; this contributes to soil erosion in the surrounding area and also the contamination of the environment via chemical runoff from vehicle effluent. High traffic speeds in front of the Garden also make it quite dangerous for pedestrians and cyclist, especially in times of inclement weather such as fog. To address these issues, the report includes detailed designs of the refitting of the parking lot floor using environmentally friendly design, modification of traffic systems around the Garden using a round-about, and signage to support said round-about. These will be discussed in relation to the three main engineering disciplines that will be focused on in this project: transportation in regard to the round-about, structural for the signage to support it, and environmental for the parking lot. Project management information will also be provided. For the roundabout section of the report, traffic flows will be studied and the roundabout will be designed to meet the minimum requirements set by the Ministry of Transportation. The design of the roundabout will also take the available area into account; design will be restricted to within the existing area of the intersection of Marine Drive and Stadium Road. Signage design for the roundabout will focus on wind loading which consists. The environmental and hydrological criteria will focus on the refitting of the current parking lot which fitted with an impermeable surface with a permeable flooring. It will discuss in detail how the new layout will reduce issues pertaining to chemical runoff and ground water recharge. Finally, the project management section of the report will include costing and scheduling for each component. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
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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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 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) | 0.044 | 0.008 |
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".