Development of Complete Street Guidelines - The Calgary Experience
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The City of Calgary is undertaking a multi-year development of a Complete Streets Guide. This initiative has a comprehensive guiding Project Charter and is governed by a City Steering Committee made up of senior managers. The main objective of the Guide is to provide a selection of multi-modal streets for both 'greenfield' and 'brownfield' development, and a process to implement them, with the goal of increasing the attractiveness, convenience and safety of all urban transportation modes. The Guide is intended for the use of both City staff and of the very active residential/industrial/commercial development industry in Calgary. The basic notion of 'Complete Streets' involves a much higher degree of complexity in design and potential for stakeholder involvement, and may involve greater per-metre costs and cross-section widths for streets. The focus on encouraging 'Active' mode use and transit, combined with the soon-to-be-mandatory (in Calgary) incorporation of Low Impact Development (LID) measures into most street cross-sections, requires a delicate balance of the needs of the various users and facilities competing for space within the right-of-way. In addition, the Guide's intent to provide flexibility in application of the palette of new street standards is in contrast to the traditional 'prescriptive' approach. A discussion of the key issues and 'trade-offs' is included. The paper also addresses the process, with internal City and 'external' stakeholders, by which the new standards and practice were developed. Finally, the paper touches on the 'lessons learned' and how other agencies may benefit from the Calgary experience. For the covering abstract of this conference see ITRD record number 201211RT334E.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, 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".