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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Traffic Control Flagger” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #511 of 702. Estimated risk: 87.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

47%

“Traffic Control Flagger” 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%

“Traffic Control Flagger” 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

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

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

  • Perform preventative maintenance on vehicles and heavy equipment.

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

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

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

  • Inspect markers to verify accurate installation.

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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