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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Traffic Signal Technician” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #511 of 702. Estimated risk: 87.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

47%

“Traffic Signal Technician” 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 Signal Technician” 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.

  • Inspect markers to verify accurate installation.

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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

  • Apply oil to road surfaces, using sprayers.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

Technologies & Software

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

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