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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Road Builder” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #511 of 702. Estimated risk: 87.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

47%

“Road Builder” will probably not be replaced by AI.

Based on the cognitive demands, communication requirements, and logical reasoning intrinsic to this occupation according to O*NET data, we project a 47% probability of disruption by generative AI and Large Language Models.

Automation & Robot Risk

60%

“Road Builder” will maybe be replaced by robots.

Evaluating the physical dexterity, repetitive motion tasks, and manual labor associated with this role, our analysis indicates a 60% likelihood of substitution by advanced robotics systems.

Personal & Financial Insights

Every occupation has a unique profile. For Highway Maintenance Workers, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and O*NET classify the day-to-day work broadly as: Maintain highways, municipal and rural roads, airport runways, and rights-of-way. Duties include patching broken or eroded pavement and repairing guard rails, highway markers, and snow fences. May also mow or clear brush from along road, or plow snow from roadway.

Avg. Annual Salary $51,410
Avg. Hourly Wage $24.72
Available Jobs (US) 151,750
Job Title & Hierarchy Code (SOC) Highway Maintenance Workers #47-4051
Wage vs. National Median
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Data is based on the reference occupation: “Highway Maintenance Workers”

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Core Skills & Abilities

  • Apply poisons along roadsides and in animal burrows to eliminate unwanted roadside vegetation and rodents.

  • Inspect, clean, and repair drainage systems, bridges, tunnels, and other structures.

  • Set out signs and cones around work areas to divert traffic.

  • Perform preventative maintenance on vehicles and heavy equipment.

  • Drive trucks to transport crews and equipment to work sites.

  • Measure and mark locations for installation of markers, using tape, string, or chalk.

  • Apply oil to road surfaces, using sprayers.

  • Erect, install, or repair guardrails, road shoulders, berms, highway markers, warning signals, and highway lighting, using hand tools and power tools.

  • Place and remove snow fences used to prevent the accumulation of drifting snow on highways.

  • Remove litter and debris from roadways, including debris from rock and mud slides.

  • Blend compounds to form adhesive mixtures used for marker installation.

  • Paint traffic control lines and place pavement traffic messages, by hand or using machines.

  • Dump, spread, and tamp asphalt, using pneumatic tampers, to repair joints and patch broken pavement.

  • Haul and spread sand, gravel, and clay to fill washouts and repair road shoulders.

  • Inspect markers to verify accurate installation.

  • Drive heavy equipment and vehicles with adjustable attachments to sweep debris from paved surfaces, mow grass and weeds, remove snow and ice, and spread salt and sand.

  • Flag motorists to warn them of obstacles or repair work ahead.

  • Clean and clear debris from culverts, catch basins, drop inlets, ditches, and other drain structures.

  • Perform roadside landscaping work, such as clearing weeds and brush, and planting and trimming trees.

Technologies & Software

  • Buildots AI
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
  • Web browser software
  • Microsoft Office software
  • Microsoft Word
  • Microsoft Outlook
  • Autodesk Construction AI
  • Database software
  • Gemini for Workspace
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Spreadsheet software
  • Procore AI
  • Word processing software
  • ChatGPT (OpenAI)
  • Scissor trucks
  • Rock cutters
  • Pneumatic tampers
  • Jackhammers
  • Paint mixers
  • Chip spreaders
  • Pavement joint sealers
  • Berm drag tractors
  • Truck-mounted pavement striping machines
  • Push mowers
  • Machetes
  • Laydown machines
  • Pull type pavers
  • Graders
  • Oil heating burners
  • Two way radios
  • Portable welding equipment
  • Swiss hammers
  • Medium pressure hydraulic pumps
  • 8-ton dump trucks
  • Culvert cleaners
  • Concrete mixers
  • Windrow loaders
  • Mud jacks
  • Bucket trucks
  • Water pumps
  • Hammers
  • Theodolites
  • Tar kettles
  • Tow brooms
  • Sandblasters
  • Truck mounted excavators
  • Hydraulic excavators
  • Snoopers
  • 13000-23000 pound graders
  • Power saws
  • Patch rollers less than 9 tons
  • Truck low-bed trailer combos
  • Brush chippers
  • Platform trucks
  • Epoxy guns
  • Front end loaders
  • Side dozers
  • Side-mount rotary mowers
  • Truck mounted cranes
  • High-pressure hydraulic pumps
  • Flatbed trailers
  • Air compressors
  • Dump trucks
  • Seeders
  • Four-wheel drive front end loaders
  • Sewer eels
  • Self-propelled cranes
  • Forklifts
  • Screwdrivers
  • Tractor-mounted mowers
  • Stone box spreaders
  • Transport trucks
  • Picks
  • Asphalt reclaimers
  • Stump cutters
  • Harrows
  • Towable barricades
  • Personal computers
  • Bush axes
  • Catch basin vacuum cleaners
  • Chemical sprayers
  • Adjustable widemouth pliers
  • Graffiti removing lasers
  • Pressure washers
  • Swinging stages
  • Thermoplastic applicators
  • Self-propelled road wideners
  • Low boys
  • 4-6 ton roller patchers
  • Paint transfer pumps
  • Circuit testing equipment
  • Shovels
  • Power broom street sweepers
  • Desktop computers
  • Gas transporters
  • Chain saws
  • Rear flail mowers
  • Snow blowers
  • Paint guns
  • Concrete saws
  • Hydraulic spreaders
  • Gradalls
  • Power screeds
  • Cherry pickers
  • Self-propelled sweepers
  • Rock drills
  • Ditchers
  • Pavement rollers
  • Compactors
  • Measuring wheels
  • Draglines
  • Hole diggers/augers
  • Aggregate spreaders
  • Cold planers
  • Rear brush hog mowers
  • Weedeaters
  • Mounted pavement breakers
  • Computerized weed spray trucks
  • Scaffolding
  • Tractor disc attachments
  • Snowplows
  • Laser printers
  • Rakes
  • Water trucks
  • Pile drivers
  • Generators
  • Adjustable wrenches
  • Pavement grinders
  • Tar distributors
  • Sand spreaders
  • Digger derricks
  • Pothole excavation milling machines
  • Tanker trucks
  • Heavy trucks
  • Impact wrenches
  • Vans
  • Concrete paving vibrators
  • Rotary snowplows
  • 10-ton tandem-axle dump trucks
  • Athey loaders
  • Spades
  • Two-wheel drive front end loaders
  • 30-ton clam buckets
  • Tire chains
  • Multipurpose vacuum street sweepers
  • Bulldozers
  • Bituminous pavers
  • Light trucks
  • 10-ton crawlers
  • Sewer cleaners
  • Boom trucks
  • Wheeled hydraulic booms
  • Belly dump tractor trailers
  • Concrete groovers
  • Steam cleaning equipment

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