Ontario-Quebec Trade Corridor and Continental Gateway: A Safe, Sustainable and Competitive Gateway
Bibliographic record
Abstract
A multimodal transportation system developed and integrated to the rest of North America is essential to support Quebec and Ontario trade as much with the United States as with the rest of the World. Despite the good performance of this transportation system, Quebec, Ontario and Canada will have to rely on a structured and performing system in order to remain competitive in the future. In July 2007, the governments of Canada, Ontario and Quebec signed a Memorandum of Understanding stating the framework of a federal-provincial collaboration for the development of the Ontario-Quebec Trade Corridor and Continental Gateway in partnership with the public and private sectors. The objective of this Memorandum of Understanding is to establish the Quebec-Ontario Trade Corridor and Continental Gateway as a transport system that is strategic, integrated and competitive on a global scale in support of international trade and domestic exchanges supporting foreign trade. The global objective of this tripartite planning initiative is the elaboration and implementation of a global strategy for the short, medium and long term. This will allow a better integration of transportation systems while improving their effectiveness, safety and sustainability. This initiative is comprised in a Canadian initiative for gateways and trade corridors, the two other gateways being the Asia-Pacific Gateway and Corridor Initiative and the Atlantic Gateway. The goal of this communication is to go over the Gateway's objectives and make a quick assessment of results from the infrastructure studies and workgroup activities on non-infrastructure issues (policies, regulations and operations. This paper was originally published in French in the 2009 TAC Conference proceedings, as La porte continentale et le corridor de commerce Ontario-Quebec: une porte d'entree sure, durable et competitive. The translation was provided by the author.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.011 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.019 | 0.002 |
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".