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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Traffic Controller” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #511 of 702. Estimated risk: 87.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

47%

“Traffic Controller” 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 Controller” 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.

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

  • Inspect markers to verify accurate installation.

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • Perform preventative maintenance on vehicles and heavy equipment.

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

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

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

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

  • Apply oil to road surfaces, using sprayers.

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

Technologies & Software

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

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