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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

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

  • Perform preventative maintenance on vehicles and heavy equipment.

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

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

  • Inspect markers to verify accurate installation.

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

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

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

  • Apply oil to road surfaces, using sprayers.

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

  • 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.

  • 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 trucks to transport crews and equipment to work sites.

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

  • 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.

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

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

Technologies & Software

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

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