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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Transportation Maintenance Operator” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #511 of 702. Estimated risk: 87.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

47%

“Transportation Maintenance Operator” 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%

“Transportation Maintenance Operator” 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.

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • Inspect markers to verify accurate installation.

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

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

  • Apply oil to road surfaces, using sprayers.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

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

Technologies & Software

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

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