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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

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

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

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

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

  • Perform preventative maintenance on vehicles and heavy equipment.

  • Inspect markers to verify accurate installation.

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • Apply oil to road surfaces, using sprayers.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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