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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Transportation Worker” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #511 of 702. Estimated risk: 87.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

47%

“Transportation Worker” 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 Worker” 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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • Inspect markers to verify accurate installation.

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

  • Perform preventative maintenance on vehicles and heavy equipment.

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • Apply oil to road surfaces, using sprayers.

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

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

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

Technologies & Software

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

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