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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Street Worker” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #511 of 702. Estimated risk: 87.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

47%

“Street 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%

“Street 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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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

  • Apply oil to road surfaces, using sprayers.

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

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

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

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

  • Inspect markers to verify accurate installation.

  • Perform preventative maintenance on vehicles and heavy equipment.

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

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

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

Technologies & Software

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

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