INTERMODAL ALLIANCES : CLASS 1S HAVE ADOPTED A PARTNERSHIP-PROMOTION PHILOSOPHY TO EXPAND MARKET REACH, IMPROVE TRANSIT TIMES AND PROVIDE TRUCK-COMPETITIVE SERVICE
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Now that mergers have lost their allure, Class I's are using co- promotions and alliances to link up with broader markets and compete more effectively for trucking dollars. Better communication and blocking have improved on-time rates, which are showing up in statistics kept by large intermodal customers like UPS. CSX focus groups support seamless service across the Canadian border and more opportunities for linkups into Mexico. UP is trying to develop a service brand with its Blue Streak, which offers three tiers of container service between Los Angeles and Atlanta, including a guaranteed on-time delivery option. While service times and efficiencies are improving, the soft economy isn't generating the demand rail carriers need to support all the initiatives, but they're hoping for an upturn.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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