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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Traffic 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 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 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

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • Inspect markers to verify accurate installation.

  • Apply oil to road surfaces, using sprayers.

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

  • Perform preventative maintenance on vehicles and heavy equipment.

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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