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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Traffic Control Laborer” 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 Laborer” 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 Laborer” 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

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

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

  • Inspect markers to verify accurate installation.

  • Apply oil to road surfaces, using sprayers.

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • Perform preventative maintenance on vehicles and heavy equipment.

  • 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.

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

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