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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Traffic Control Specialist” 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 Specialist” 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 Specialist” 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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • Inspect markers to verify accurate installation.

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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

  • Apply oil to road surfaces, using sprayers.

  • 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.

Technologies & Software

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

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