To break 0.60 on the Barbados Traffic Analysis Challenge:

1. Focus on Macro-F1 (70% of score): Ensure balanced performance across all congestion classes. A model that fails on rare classes will have a low Macro-F1.
2. Improve Feature Engineering: Go beyond basic counts. Use object tracking to extract vehicle speeds, dwell times, and flow rates from the video streams. Analyze temporal patterns and correlations between the four camera views.
3. Use the Starter Notebook: Build upon the official on Kaggle or your local machine which uses a RandomForestRegressor. A TPU is not needed; focus on features, not hardware.
4. Ensure Reproducibility & Explainability: Set a random seed and make your code reproducible. The top 20 must provide documentation on the key factors causing congestion, as these insights will guide government policy.