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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Transportation Technician” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #511 of 702. Estimated risk: 87.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

47%

“Transportation 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%

“Transportation 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

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

  • Perform preventative maintenance on vehicles and heavy equipment.

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

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

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

  • Apply oil to road surfaces, using sprayers.

  • Inspect markers to verify accurate installation.

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

Technologies & Software

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

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