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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Transportation Maintenance Specialist (TMS)” 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 Specialist (TMS)” 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 Specialist (TMS)” 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

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

  • Apply oil to road surfaces, using sprayers.

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • Inspect markers to verify accurate installation.

Technologies & Software

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

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