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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Road Maintenance Worker” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #511 of 702. Estimated risk: 87.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

47%

“Road Maintenance Worker” 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 Maintenance Worker” 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 oil to road surfaces, using sprayers.

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

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

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

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

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

  • Inspect markers to verify accurate installation.

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

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

  • Perform preventative maintenance on vehicles and heavy equipment.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

Technologies & Software

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

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